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We perform the calculation of all relativistic and quantum electrodynamic corrections of the order of $\alpha^6\,m$ to the ground electronic state of a hydrogen molecule and present improved results for the dissociation and the fundamental…
A model-operator approach to fully relativistic calculations of the nuclear recoil effect on energy levels in many-electron atomic systems is worked out. The one-electron part of the model operator for treating the normal mass shift beyond…
A complete evaluation of the two-loop self-energy diagrams to all orders in Z\alpha is presented for the ground state of H-like ions with Z\ge 40.
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The Mott corrections to the higher moments of the heavy ion energy-loss distribution are calculated in a wide range of relative particle velocity on the basis of the Mott exact cross section. It is shown that the relative Mott corrections…
We report a serious kinematics problem in the bremsstrahlung photon part of the order-$\alpha$ outer (model independent) radiative correction calculations for those neutron (and nuclear beta) decay observables (like electron-neutrino…
Several new corrections of order $m\alpha^6$ to the energy levels of $S$ states in helium are obtained from radiative corrections to the Breit potential and from the polarization insertions in the two photon exchange graphs. While…
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A calculation of the simplest part of the second-order electron self-energy (loop after loop irreducible contribution) for hydrogen-like ions with nuclear charge numbers $3 \leq Z \leq 92$ is presented. This serves as a test for the more…
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