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We calculate analytically the effective mass and the quasiparticle renormalization factor in an electron liquid with long-range Coulomb interactions between electrons in two and three dimensions in the leading order density expansion. We…
Properties of a two-level atom coupled to the quantized electromagnetic field at finite temperature are determined. The analysis is based on a new method (inspired by QED) of describing qubits, developed previously at zero temperature…
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