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We consider hard three-loop nonlogarithmic corrections of order $m\alpha^7$ to hyperfine splitting in positronium. All these contributions are generated by the graphs with photon and/or electron loop radiative insertions in the two-photon…
The single photon annihilation contributions for the positronium ground state hyperfine splitting are calculated analytically to order $m_e\alpha^6$ using NRQED. Based on intuitive physical arguments the same result can also be determined…
The measurement of the eta_b mass, together with a QCD result for the hyperfine splitting E_{HFS}=M_{Upsilon(1S)}-M_{eta_b}, allows us to determine the strong coupling constant alpha_s at a low energy scale. The result…
The recoil, vacuum polarization and electron vertex corrections of first and second orders in the fine structure constant $\alpha$ and the ratio of electron to muon and electron to \alpha-particle masses are calculated in the hyperfine…
On the basis of perturbation theory in fine structure constant alpha and the ratio of electron to muon masses we calculate one-loop vacuum polarization, electron vertex corrections, nuclear structure and recoil corrections to hyperfine…
Corrections of orders alpha^5, alpha^6 are calculated in the hyperfine splitting of the muonic hydrogen ground state. The nuclear structure effects are taken into account in the one- and two-loop Feynman amplitudes by means of the proton…
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…
Ongoing improvements in the measurement of positronium transition intervals motivate the calculation of the $O(m \alpha^7)$ corrections to these intervals. In this work we focus on corrections to the spin-singlet parapositronium energies…
The m\alpha^6(m/M) order corrections to the hyperfine splitting in the H_2^+ ion are calculated. That allows to reduce uncertainty in the frequency intervals between hyperfine sublevels of a given rovibrational state to about 10 ppm.…
We present a calculation of the hyperfine splitting of the $2^3S$ state in the $^3$He atom with inclusion of all QED effects up to $\alpha^3E_F$, where $E_F$ is the Fermi splitting. Using the experimental value of the $1S$ hyperfine…
Relativistic and QED corrections are calculated for the hyperfine splitting (hfs) in the $2S_{1/2}$ ground state of $^{9}$Be$^+$ ions with an exact account for electronic correlations. The achieved accuracy is sufficient to determine the…
An "ultrafine" splitting in positronium between the $L=1$ spin-singlet state and the spin-average of the spin-triplet states is shown to arise only at order $\alpha^6$. The QED prediction for $n=2$ states is…
We present a detailed derivation of the QED effects of order $\alpha^7\,m$ to the hyperfine structure (hfs) of the $^3S$ states of helium-like ions and perform numerical calculations for $^6$Li$^+$ and $^7$Li$^+$. By comparing the…
We have calculated all contributions to the energy levels of parapositronium at order $m \alpha^7$ coming from vacuum polarization corrections to processes involving virtual annihilation to two photons. This work is motivated by ongoing…
We obtain positronium Hyperfine Splitting owing to the non-commutativity of space and show that, in the leading order, it is proportional to $\theta \alpha^6$ where, $\theta$ is the parameter of non-commutativity. It is also shown that…
Positronium is an ideal system for the research of the bound state QED. The hyperfine splitting of positronium (Ps-HFS, about 203 GHz) is an important observable but all previous measurements of Ps-HFS had been measured indirectly using…
Radiative-recoil corrections to hyperfine splitting in muonium of orders $\alpha(Z\alpha)(m/M)^2E_F$ and $(Z^2\alpha)(Z\alpha)(m/M)^2E_F$ are calculated. These corrections are of the second order in the small electron-muon mass ratio. An…
Elaborating on a previous letter, we use a new approach to compute energy levels of a non-relativistic bound-state of two constituents, with masses m and M, by systematic expansions - one in powers of m/M and another in powers of (1-m/M).…
Positronium is an ideal system for the research of the bound state QED. New precise measurement of orthopositronium decay rate has been performed with an accuracy of 150 ppm, and the result combined with the last three is 7.0401 +- 0.0007…
We present a high-precision calculation of the recoil--finite-size correction to the hyperfine splitting (HFS) in muonic and electronic hydrogen based on nucleon electromagnetic form factors obtained from dispersion theory. This will help…