Abstract
Electric fields and magnetic fields exert a manifest influence, or effect, on the energy levels of an atom. These effects, revealed for example by the splitting of spectral lines, are called Stark and Zeeman effects, respectively. The Stark effect (first observed by Johannes Stark in 1913) plays an important role, for example, in theoretical attempts to understand the formation of molecules from atoms. Our interest will be in the Zeeman effect—especially as we consider the notion of “spin,” and spin wave functions in the next chapter, particularly in Section 9.3 there.KeywordsElectric Dipole MomentMagnetic Dipole MomentZeeman EffectSpin Wave FunctionArbitrary ChargeThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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