| Issue |
EPL
Volume 81, Number 3, February 2008
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| Article Number | 31002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | The Physics of Elementary Particles and Fields | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/81/31002 | |
| Published online | 03 January 2008 | |
On the Lamb shift
Av. Tobalaba 3696, Puente Alto, Santiago, Metropolitana 8170323, Chile
Received:
23
August
2007
Accepted:
3
December
2007
The Lamb shift is calculated, in an approximate way, considering the hydrogen atom as an isolated physical system; the quantized radiation field does not play any role in the present approach. Our formalism is based on the generalization of the Dirac wave equation that incorporates the effects of the electron self-fields directly into it. Both the physical picture as well as the mathematical formalism have their roots in the classical theory of the electron.
PACS: 12.20.-m – Quantum electrodynamics / 03.65.-w – Quantum mechanics / 03.50.-z – Classical field theories
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