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Published March 12, 1979 | Published
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Bender-Wu Formula and the Stark Effect in Hydrogen

Abstract

We discuss a close connection between the formula of Banks, Bender, and Wu for the asymptotics of the Rayleigh-Schrödinger coefficients of the two-dimensional rotationally symmetric anharmonic oscillator and the behavior of resonances of the hydrogen Stark problem in two regimes: small field (Oppenheimer's formula) and large field (where we obtain the new results arg E → −π/3, ∣E∣ ∼α[F(lnF)^(2/3) for F, the electric field strength, going to infinity). We also announce a rigorous proof of Bender-Wu-type formulas.

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© 1979 American Physical Society. (Received 23 October 1978) It is a pleasure to thank S. Graffi and I. Herbst for their interest and valuable comments. This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Grant No. MCS 78-01885 and in part by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna. One of us (E.H. ) acknowledges receipt of a National Science Foundation National Needs Fellowship.

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