Abstract
In 1913, Stark observed a splitting of the lines of the Balmer series of hydrogen (8.2) in an electric field. He was studying the light emission of H atoms in the field of a condenser (Figs. 15.1, 2). Since then, frequency shifts in optical spectra in the presence of eletric fields have been generally called the Stark effect.
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N. F. Ryde: Atoms and Molecules in Electric Fields (Almqvist and Wicksell, Stockholm 1976)
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Haken, H., Wolf, H.C. (1983). Atoms in an Electric Field. In: Atomic and Quantum Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-96813-6_15
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