Quantum electrodynamics based on self-energy: Lamb shift and spontaneous emission without field quantization
- 1 December 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 32 (6), 3187-3195
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.32.3187
Abstract
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.Keywords
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