Transverse orbital Zeeman mixing

ID: transverse-orbital-zeeman-mixing

For an axially split multiplet with energy and equal energies , a transverse -directed magnetic field leaves unchanged and couples through the orbital angular momentum operator . The matrix element has modulus , giving the two energy eigenvalues in the title. For , the orbital shifts are quadratic despite a linear Zeeman energy operator. A full quadratic-field calculation also includes the diamagnetic term; electron spin gives its own linear contribution.

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