Ay. Potekhin, STRUCTURE AND RADIATIVE TRANSITIONS OF THE HYDROGEN-ATOM MOVING IN A STRONG MAGNETIC-FIELD, Journal of physics. B, Atomic molecular and optical physics, 27(6), 1994, pp. 1073-1090
The discrete spectrum of the hydrogen atom moving across a strong magn
etic field (B = 7 x 10(11)-7 x 10(12) G) is studied by expanding wavef
unctions over a complete orthogonal basis, whose single term provides
a correct description of an atomic state at large pseudomomenta K of t
he transverse motion. Wavefunctions, energies, atomic sizes and oscill
ator strengths of radiative transitions are calculated and analysed in
a wide range of K values. All these quantities undergo radical change
s when the atom moves across the field. The discrete spectrum remains
infinite at arbitrary K, although the mean transverse velocity cannot
exceed some maximum value for the bound states. Oscillator strengths c
hange by orders of magnitude and some dipole selection rules are viola
ted.