Stability of Matter in Magnetic Fields

Abstract

In the presence of arbitrarily large magnetic fields, matter composed of electrons and nuclei was known to be unstable if $\alpha$ or $Z$ is too large. Here we prove that matter {\it is stable\/} if $\alpha <0.06$ and $Z{\alpha }^2<0.04$.

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