Fourth-order vacuum-polarization contribution to the Lamb shift

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 2714-2717

  Mallampalli, S ^a   Sapirstein, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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EID: 17544361927     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.54.2714     Document Type: Article

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