Possibility of Thermal Corrections in Radiative Level-Shift Determination

26 July 1971

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 27 (4), 208-210
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.27.208

Abstract

We give an estimate, based on nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, of the thermal contribution to the Lamb shift in the blackbody approximation. We show that observable corrections may exist.

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