Infrared-finite algorithms in QED. II. The expansion of the groundstate of an atom interacting with the quantized radiation field (Q1002234)

The purpose of this paper is to present an explicit and constructive algorithm enabling to calculate the groundstate and the groundstate energy of a non-relativistic atom minimally coupled to the quantized radiation field up to an error of arbitrary finite order in the fine-structure constant. An iterative construction is employed to remove infrared cut-off in photon momentum space and to produce a convergent algorithm.