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The effect of a magnetic field on an atom has been studied for a long time and has played a crucial role in the understanding of atomic physics. The magnetic fields available in the laboratory are small, however; their action in the atom used to be well explained by perturbation theory. The evidence for strong magnetic fields was first found by the astronomers in white dwarfs some twenty years ago, and extremely strong fields are assumed to exist in neutron stars. This discovery led to laboratory experiments that somehow manage to imitate the extraordinary conditions in these exceptional stars.
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Gutzwiller, M.C. (1990). The Diamagnetic Kepler Problem. In: Chaos in Classical and Quantum Mechanics. Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0983-6_19
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