Multiple commutator expansion for the Lamb shift in a strong Coulomb field
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
- Vol. 30 (2) , 177-187
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/30/2/013
Abstract
A new expression for the electron self-energy in a strong Coulomb field is obtained without expansion in powers of ( is the fine structure constant, Z is the charge of the nucleus). This expression contains the multiple commutator expansion, which differs from the expansion and converges rapidly even for very high Z values. The renormalization procedure requires the proof of a new sum rule. This proof is given explicitly for Z = 1 and implicitly for all Z values for the state. The numerical calculation of the Lamb shift for different Z values is performed and comparison with the known results made.Keywords
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