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QED derivation of the Stark shift and line broadening induced by blackbody radiation. / Solovyev, D.; Labzowsky, L.; Plunien, G.
In: Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Vol. 92, No. 2, 2015, p. 022508_1-12.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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TY - JOUR
T1 - QED derivation of the Stark shift and line broadening induced by blackbody radiation
AU - Solovyev, D.
AU - Labzowsky, L.
AU - Plunien, G.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The rigorous quantum electrodynamic approach is applied for the derivation of the Stark shift of the atomic energy levels induced by blackbody radiation (BBR) within the framework of perturbation theory. The temperature-dependent one-loop self-energy (SE) correction of bound atomic electron states accounting for the number of photons represented by the Planckian frequency-distribution function is examined. According to this approach, the energy shift arises as the real part of self-energy correction while the imaginary part describes the BBR-induced depopulation rate for a given atomic state. Moreover, regularization of the divergent energy denominators arising in the SE correction leads to an additional correction to the level width that has not been considered before and can be explained by the mixing effect of atomic levels in the presence of the BBR-induced mean electric field.
AB - The rigorous quantum electrodynamic approach is applied for the derivation of the Stark shift of the atomic energy levels induced by blackbody radiation (BBR) within the framework of perturbation theory. The temperature-dependent one-loop self-energy (SE) correction of bound atomic electron states accounting for the number of photons represented by the Planckian frequency-distribution function is examined. According to this approach, the energy shift arises as the real part of self-energy correction while the imaginary part describes the BBR-induced depopulation rate for a given atomic state. Moreover, regularization of the divergent energy denominators arising in the SE correction leads to an additional correction to the level width that has not been considered before and can be explained by the mixing effect of atomic levels in the presence of the BBR-induced mean electric field.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.92.022508
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.92.022508
M3 - Article
VL - 92
SP - 022508_1-12
JO - Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
JF - Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
SN - 1050-2947
IS - 2
ER -
ID: 3955151