Self-energy correction to the two-photon decay width in hydrogenlike atoms

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 5 A, 2004, Pages

  Jentschura, Ulrich D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HAMILTONIANS; HYDROGEN; INTEGRATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUANTUM THEORY;

PHOTON ENERGIES; PHOTON SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS (QED); RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 3042813295     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.052118     Document Type: Article

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