Lamb shift Definition and 16 Threads

The analytical computation of the shift in energy level of electrons in atoms due to quantum electrodynamics is carried out using perturbation theory. In particular, the fourth-order contribution is given in five different terms. One of them, usually called "Electron Self Energy", leads to seven...

I bought a paper written by Kuo-Ho Yang (gauge transformations and QM) in which i read this: since Lamb [1] asserted that in order to describe the interaction of a bound system with external time-varying fields to the lowest order and in the long wavelength approximation one should use an...

German Wikipedia mentions that the g factor is one of the causes of the Lamb Shift. It does not say why and I am trying to find a connection between these two things. Any ideas?

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Summary:: Trying to find good books so that I can continue writing my paper about the vacuum Hello fellow physics enthusiasts, I require your support to find good and scientific literature about: Lamb Shift Vacuumpolarisation Zero point energy It can be a long source too, so don't be afraid...

This recent article (https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-finally-nail-the-protons-size-and-hope-dies-20190911/) on the size of the proton left me with a couple of confusing questions: 1/ Is the amount of the lamb shift completely determined by Feynman diagrams or is "it spends part of its...

In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_shift about the lamb shift, it's mentioned that the change in the electron's frequency due to QED effects (vacuum polarization and self-energy correction) is about 1 GHz, which would translate to an energy change of hf = 6.63E-25 J. This is 3E-7 times of the...

Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) has some observable effects such as the lamb shift, which is mainly caused by the vacuum polarization and the electron self-energy. These effects contribute to the "smearing" of the electron in an unpredictable manner, other than the uncertainty we already have...

The Uehling potential due to vacuum polarization by virtual electron-positron pairs is said to be the dominant contribution — 205.0073 meV — to the Lamb shift between the 2P1/22P1/2 and 2S1/22S1/2 states of muonic hydrogen. In the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_shift), it is...

Good day dear forum, greetings from Argentina. I am studying the Lamb Shift, which says that in the atomic orbitals, an upward energy shift occurs due to an interaction of the electron with itself. This means that a level s can have an energy slightly greater than a level p. So far so good, but...

What exactly is the so-called "Ground State Lamb Shift". It seems to have been an 'in vogue' quantity up till 1995 or so - then vanished from the literature ?? It's the 'self energy' or something like that of an electron in H 1S orbital. A scientist (at NIST) told me it's a term that has gone...

I think I already know the answer to this, but I'm looking for a source: Can the Lamb shift be explained entirely in terms of radiative corrections due to the self-interaction of the hydrogen's electron with its own EM field? That is, is it necessary to reference vacuum polarization or related...

What will you suggest someone for books which provide discussion on the Lamb shift (QED correction) of atomic energy levels?

I could only find abstracts for proposals of methods that could accomplish this. I don't have any subscriptions to journals so I can't read the papers. Also while I'm on the subject, the energy levels of antihydrogen should be the same as hydrogen right?

Lamb shift proved that within an atom the energy level of electrons changes with changes in orbital position. Given that energy and mass are related (or “one and the same” according to some texts) does this mean that within an atom electron mass varies? And if so does this not contradict...

A 2s electron in a hydrogen atom has more energy than a 2p electron. Quantum field theory says this is because the 2s electron interacts with itself by emitting and absorbing a photon.But what if the proton and the electron carry a charge which is always repulsive.Then a 2s electron which is...