Radiation Reaction and Radiative Frequency Shifts
- 5 March 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 30 (10) , 456-460
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.30.456
Abstract
We investigate the question of quantum-electrodynamic radiative corrections to atomic transition frequencies. It is shown that the Heisenberg equations of motion allow a novel and fruitful exploitation of the concept of radiation reaction.Keywords
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