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.Keywords
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