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In the presence of arbitrarily large magnetic fields, matter composed of electrons and nuclei was known to be unstable if a or Z is too large. Here we prove that matter is stable if α < 0.06 and Zα 2 < 0.04.
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Lieb, E.H., Loss, M., Solovej, J.P. (1997). Stability of Matter in Magnetic Fields. In: Thirring, W. (eds) The Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03436-1_38
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