Long-range interactions of excited hydrogen atoms |
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| Authors: | T.L. Stephens A. Dalgarno |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Center for Astrophysics, Harvard College Observatory and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory , Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138;2. Now at General Electric-TEMPO , Santa Barbara, California |
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| Abstract: | Accurate calculations are reported of the first and second-order long-range interactions of a hydrogen atom in its ground state and a hydrogen atom in the excited 2s, 2p, 3s, 3p and 3d states. The connections with the spectroscopic states of molecular hydrogen are established. First-order mixing occurs for the n = 3 states and the form of the long-range interaction is complicated. |
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