The hydrogen atom in strong electric fields: Summation of the weak field series expansion

The order dependent mapping method, whose convergence has recently been proven for the energy eigenvalue of the anharmonic oscillator, is applied to re-sum the standard perturbation series for the Stark effect of the hydrogen atom. We perform a numerical experiment up to the 50th order of the perturbation expansion. A simple mapping, suggested by the analytic structure and the strong field behavior, gives an excellent agreement with the exact value for an intermediate range of the electric field, 0.03 (a.u.) ≤ E ≤ 0.25 (a.u.). The imaginary part of the energy (the decay width) as well as the real part of the energy is reproduced from the standard perturbation series.