I wrote: Unless Holmlid is proposing Rydberg excitation that is fundamentally > different than that seen elsewhere, the orbitals of the electrons are those > of the usual spherical harmonics (e.g., an s- or p-orbitals), but with > large angular momentum, which leads them to be deformed and susceptible to > magnetic fields. >
Sorry, that was supposed to be "large principal quantum number," i.e., additional energy carried by the electron. (The angular momentum is what leads to the specific orbital type, s-, p-, d-, etc.) Eric
