Radiative Corrections to the Polarizability of Helium
- 10 June 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 92 (23) , 233001
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.92.233001
Abstract
The complete alpha(3) QED correction to the helium atom polarizability is computed assuming an infinite nuclear mass and found to be equal to 0.000030666(3) a.u., with the contribution from the electric-field dependence of the Bethe logarithm amounting to 0.000000193(2) a.u. After including the alpha(2) and alpha(3) corrections for the nuclear recoil and the leading part of the alpha(4) QED correction, we find that the molar polarizability of 4He is 0.51725419(9)(4) cm(3)/mol. The first of the two error bounds is dominated by the uncertainty of alpha(4) and higher-order QED corrections and the second reflects the uncertainty of the Avogadro constant.Keywords
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