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Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics

Comment on analytical calculations of two-photon transition amplitudes for the hydrogen atom

Крыловецкий Александр Абрамович, Nikolai L. Manakov, S. I. Marmo

Published Jan 25, 2005• 6 citations
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Abstract

It is shown that analytical results for amplitudes of two-photon transitions from an arbitrary bound state of the hydrogen atom published in two recent papers in this journal reduce to an essentially simpler form that considerably simplifies both analysis and numerical evaluations.
DOI
10.1088/0953-4075/38/3/n01

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