Revisiting the Lamb Shift
General Physics
2017-05-05 v1
Abstract
In this paper we endeavour to determine the energy levels of an atom by virtue of the modified Dirac equation. It has been found that the energy levels contain an extra term in the expression which accounts for the {\it zitterbewegung} effects in the Compton scale. Applying our perspective to the hydrogen atom we have been able to find the {\it Lamb shift} for the and states. This result substantiates that a slight modification of the Dirac equation suffices to explain the phenomenon, where the modification of the Dirac equation arises due to the non-commutative nature of space-time. Besides, several other unexplained phenomena can emerge as a natural consequence of this modification
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@article{arxiv.1705.01870,
title = {Revisiting the Lamb Shift},
author = {A. Das and B. G. Sidharth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.01870},
year = {2017}
}
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13 pages