The relativistic nuclear recoil, higher-order interelectronic-interaction, and screened QED corrections to the transition energies in Li-like ions are evaluated. The calculation of the relativistic recoil effect is performed to all orders in 1/Z. The interelectronic-interaction correction to the transition energies beyond the two-photon-exchange level is evaluated to all orders in 1/Z within the Breit approximation. The evaluation is carried out employing the large-scale configuration-interaction Dirac-Fock-Sturm method. The rigorous calculation of the complete gauge invariant sets of the screened self-energy and vacuum-polarization diagrams is performed utilizing a local screening potential as the zeroth-order approximation. The theoretical predictions for the 2p_j - 2s transition energies are compiled and compared with available experimental data in the range of the nuclear charge number Z = 10 - 60.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)042513_1-15
JournalPhysical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume81
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010

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