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Phys. Rev. A 63, 065402 (2001) [4 pages]

Hydrogen atom in a magnetic field: The quadrupole moment

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Alexander Y. Potekhin *
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia

Alexander V. Turbiner †
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Université Paris-Sud, F-91405, France
Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, Apartado Postal 70-543, 04510 México Distrito Federal, México

Received 8 January 2001; published 16 May 2001

The quadrupole moment of a hydrogen atom in a magnetic field B for field strengths from 0 to 4.414×1013 G is calculated by two different methods. The first method is variational, and based on a single trial function. The second method deals with a solution of the Schrödinger equation in the form of a linear combination of Landau orbitals.


©2001 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.63.065402
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.63.065402
PACS: 32.60.+i, 31.10.+z, 31.15.Pf, 97.20.Rp

* Electronic address: palex@astro.ioffe.rssi.ru
† On leave of absence from the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow 117259, Russia.

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