Resonances of a hydrogen atom in strong parallel electric and magnetic fields using B-spline basis sets

Abstract

The B-spline basis set plus complex scaling method is applied to the numerical calculation of the exact resonance parameters Er and Γ/2 of a hydrogen atom in parallel electric and magnetic fields. The method can calculate the ground and higher excited resonances accurately and efficiently. The resonance parameters with accuracies of 10−9 – 10−12 for hydrogen atom in parallel fields with different field strengths and symmetries are presented and compared with previous ones. Extension to the calculation of Rydberg atom in crossed electric and magnetic fields and of atomic double excited states in external electric fields is discussed.