A Casimir approach for radiative self-energy
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We apply a Casimir energy approach to evaluate the self-energy or one-photon radiative correction for an electron in a hydrogen orbital. This linking of the Lamb shift to the Casimir effect is obtained by treating the hydrogen orbital as a one-electron shell and including the probability of the electron being at a particular radius in that orbital and the probability that the electron will interact with a virtual photon of a given energy.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0606217,
title = {A Casimir approach for radiative self-energy},
author = {Allan Rosencwaig},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0606217},
year = {2007}
}
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12 pages