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Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in the effects of externally applied electric, magnetic, and radiation fields upon atomic spectra and collision processes, due to the development of the ability to produce, in the laboratory, fields which are comparable in strength to internal atomic fields1–3. But it is almost impossible to create fields in the laboratory (109 V/cm) which are strong enough to disrupt atoms in their normal states. On the other hand, a Rydberg atom, which can be thousands of angstroms in size, is very sensitive to external perturbations, and the Coulomb field of the nucleus can be overcome by an external electric field of only 5 kV/cm. Thus entry of atomic physics into the strong-field regime has been accomplished by dealing with highly excited states, rather than by generating enormous laboratory fields. Diverse strong field effects are now studied in the laboratory under easily controlled conditions. These studies have extended the scope of research in areas which once used only weak field effects, and they have also opened up new avenues.
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Nayfeh, M.H., Humm, D., Peercy, M. (1989). Hydrogen in Strong DC and Low Frequency Electric Fields — One Dimensional Atoms. In: Bassani, G.F., Inguscio, M., Hänsch, T.W. (eds) The Hydrogen Atom. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88421-4_28
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