Abstract
The ground-state energy of a hydrogen atom in magnetic fields up to 10 10 G has been calculated accurately by a combination of Rayleigh Schrodinger perturbation theory and a simple variational procedure. The wavefunctions are expressed conveniently in spherical polar coordinates and contain only two variational parameters. A similar calculation for the low-lying excited states is successful only up to much lower fields (about 108 G), but can be improved in a straightforward fashion by including higher order perturbation corrections.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 006 |
| Pages (from-to) | 2761-2767 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 16 |
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| State | Published - 1981 |