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The authors study the classical electronic motion of a two-electron atom on the Wannier ridge. Stability properties of certain periodic orbits are calculated. The analysis shows that the helium atom is not ergodic. Semiclassical implications of the classical analysis are discussed.
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Richter et al. (1990) studied this question.
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