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Atom in a Magnetic Field and Crossed F-B Fields

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Atoms in Plasmas

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One of the effects of a magnetic field B on an atom is the well known Zeeman splitting of atomic levels into separate components corresponding to specific values of the projection of the orbital momentum m of the atom along the direction of the field B. The characteristics of the Zeeman effect which are in particular due to the spin-orbit interaction have been described in detail in a number of textbooks and monographs [6.1–2]. Therefore we shall consider only the less well known aspects of the effect observed at high values of the field B. The application of a magnetic field to an atom imposes an additional constraint on the motion of an electron across the field. When the magnetic field is still further increased, there is a strong reduction in the transverse motion of an electron and consequent transformation of a three dimensional potential well of an atom into a one dimensional well. A considerable change in the energy spectrum of an atom may follow.

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Lisitsa, V.S. (1994). Atom in a Magnetic Field and Crossed F-B Fields. In: Atoms in Plasmas. Springer Series on Atoms+Plasmas, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78726-3_6

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