Weak spin-forbidden Paschen-Back line

ID: weak-spin-forbidden-paschen-back-line

At large but finite magnetic field, opposite-spin admixtures in approximate product eigenstates let nominally spin-forbidden electric-dipole channels borrow intensity. Their amplitudes scale as spin-orbit interaction energy divided by Zeeman energy; their intensities therefore vanish quadratically in that ratio.

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