ATOMS AND MOLECULES IN STRONG EXTERNAL FIELDS

By Y. ALIRL

CONTENTS WHITE DWARFS FOR PHYSICISTS MAGNETIC WHITE DWARFS: OBSERVATIONS IN COSMIC LABORATORIES HYDROGEN IN STRONG ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS AND ITS APPLICATION TO MAGNETIC WHITE DWARFS HELIUM DATA FOR STRONG MAGNETIC FIELDS OBTAINED BY FINITE ELEMENT CALCULATIONS THE SPECTRUM OF ATOMIC HYDROGEN IN MAGNETIC AND ELECTRIC FIELDS OF WHITE DWARF STARS NEUTRON STAR ATMOSPHERES HYDROGEN ATOMS IN NEUTRON STAR ATMOSPHERES: ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATIONS FOR BINDING ENERGIES ABSORPTION OF NORMAL MODES IN A STRONGLY MAGNETIZED HYDROGEN GAS ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF LIGHT ELEMENTS IN STRONG MAGNETIC FIELDS FROM FIELD-FREE ATOMS TO FINITE MOLECULAR CHAINS IN VERY STRONG MAGNETIC FIELDS THE NATIONAL HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD LABORATORY — A PRÉCIS SELF-ADAPTIVE FINITE ELEMENT TECHNIQUES FOR STABLE BOUND MATTER–ANTIMATTER SYSTEMS IN CROSSED ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS A COMPUTATIONAL METHOD FOR QUANTUM DYNAMICS OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL ATOM IN STRONG FIELDS DISCRETIZATION TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO ATOMS UNDER EXTREME CONDITIONS COMPUTER-ALGEBRAIC DERIVATION OF ATOMIC FEYNMAN–GOLDSTONE EXPANSIONS SCALED-ENERGY SPECTROSCOPY OF HELIUM AND BARIUM RYDBERG ATOMS IN EXTERNAL FIELDS ATOMS IN CROSSED FIELDS HYDROGEN-LIKE IONS MOVING IN A STRONG MAGNETIC F I E L D CENTER-OF-MASS EFFECTS ON ATOMS IN MAGNETIC FIELDS SCALING PROPERTIES FOR ATOMS IN EXTERNAL FIELDS TIME INDEPENDENT AND TIME DEPENDENT STATES OF ATOMS IN STATIC EXTERNAL FIELDS SECULAR MOTION OF 3-D RYDBERG STATES IN A MICROWAVE FIELD SPONTANEOUS DECAY OF NONDISPERSIVE WAVE PACKETS LONIZATION OF HELIUM BY STATIC ELECTRIC FIELDS AND SHORT PULSES ADIABATIC INVARIANTS OF RYDBERG ELECTRONS IN CROSSED FIELDS HIGHLY EXCITED CHARGED TWO-BODY SYSTEMS IN A MAGNETIC FIELD: A PERTURBATION THEORETICAL APPROACH TO THE CLASSICAL DYNAMICS ANALYSIS OF QUANTUM SPECTRA BY HARMONIC INVERSION ATOMS IN EXTERNAL FIELDS: GHOST ORBITS, CATASTROPHES, AND UNIFORM SEMICLASSICAL APPROXIMATIONS QUADRATIC ZEEMAN SPLITTING OF HIGHLY EXCITED RELATIVISTIC ATOMIC HYDROGEN NEUTRAL TWO-BODY SYSTEMS OF CHARGED PARTICLES IN EXTERNAL FIELDS SEMICLASSICAL THEORY OF MULTIELECTRON ATOMS AND THE MOLECULAR ION IN INTENSE EXTERNAL FIELDS ON THE GROUND STATE OF THE HYDROGEN MOLECULE IN A STRONG MAGNETIC FIELD HYDROGEN MOLECULE IN MAGNETIC FIELDS: ON EXCITED SIGMA STATES OF THE PARALLEL CONFIGURATION ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF MOLECULES IN HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS: HYPERMAGNETIZABILITIES OF SHALLOW DONOR STATES IN A MAGNETIC FIELD QUANTUM DOTS IN STRONG MAGNETIC FIELDS DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY OF QUANTUM DOTS IN A MAGNETIC FIELD AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF AN IMPURITY ELECTRON IN A QUANTUM WELL IN THE PRESENCE OF ELECTRIC AND STRONG MAGNETIC FIELDS