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Phys. Rev. A 32, 3187–3195 (1985)

Quantum electrodynamics based on self-energy: Lamb shift and spontaneous emission without field quantization

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A. O. Barut
Département de Physique Théorique, Université de Genève, 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland

J. F. Van Huele
Theoretische Natuurkunde, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium

Received 2 July 1985; published in the issue dated December 1985

The theory of radiative processes in quantum theory is formulated on the basis of self-energy, in analogy to classical radiation theory, and is explicitly carried out for the calculation of the Lamb shift and spontaneous emission.

© 1985 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.32.3187
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.32.3187
PACS:
31.30.Jv, 12.20.Ds, 11.10.Gh

See Also

Comment: Iwo Bialynicki-Birula, Comment on ‘‘Quantum electrodynamics based on self-energy: Lamb shift and spontaneous emission without field quantization’’, Phys. Rev. A 34, 3500 (1986).