An experiment has been performed with atomic hydrogen which yields an upper limit on an intrinsic violation of Laporte's rule. This limit, expressed in terms of mixing of the 2S1/2-2P1/2 parity doublet, is 1.5×{}10^-8.
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Lévy et al. (1982) studied this question.
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