Coordinate-space approach to the bound-electron self-energy: Self-energy screening calculation
Abstract
The self-energy screening correction is evaluated in a model in which the effect of the screening electron is represented as a first-order perturbation of the self-energy by an effective potential. The effective potential is the Coulomb potential of the spherically averaged charge density of the screening electron. We evaluate the energy shift due to a 1s1/2, 2s1/2, 2p1/2, or 2p3/2 electron screening a 1s1/2, 2s1/2, 2p1/2, or 2p3/2 electron, for nuclear charge Z in the range 5<=Z<=92. A detailed comparison with other calculations is made.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- May 2001
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.63.052507
- arXiv:
- arXiv:physics/0010044
- Bibcode:
- 2001PhRvA..63e2507I
- Keywords:
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- 31.30.Jv;
- Relativistic and quantum electrodynamic effects in atoms and molecules;
- Physics - Atomic Physics;
- Physics - Computational Physics
- E-Print:
- 54 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables