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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

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/abstract/PRA/v32/p3187
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.32.3187
PACS: 31.30.Jv, 12.20.Ds, 11.10.Gh

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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)

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