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The author calculates the probability of non-adiabatic processes when an oriented atomic beam passes close to a point where the magnetic field vanishes.
Translated from “Il Nuovo Cimento”, vol. 9, 1932, pp. 43–50, by P. Radicati di Brozolo.
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See, e.g., Whittaker and Watson, Modern Analysis, IV ed., p. 259.
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Majorana, E., Inguscio, M. (2006). Oriented atoms in a variable magnetic field. In: Bassani, G.F. (eds) Ettore Majorana Scientific Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48095-2_7
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