Interpretation of Radiative Corrections in Spontaneous Emission
- 8 October 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 31 (15) , 958-960
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.31.958
Abstract
Whether the origin of radiative line shifts and widths in spontaneous emission should be attributed to vacuum field fluctuations or to quantum electrodynamic radiation reaction is shown to depend on the ordering of commuting atomic and field operators.Keywords
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