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Visualizing the Stark Effect Using IDL

   

Here is a false color image of the probability density of positronium in the absense of an elecric field. You can see that both particles are most likely to be in the center, and around the center there are circles of decreasing probability.

Positronium in a weak elecric field. The particles have spread out, and their probability densities no longer have a circular shape.