Spontaneous emission and atomic line shift in causal perturbation theory

DOI10.1063/1.5002556MaRDI QIDQ4639356zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Karl-Peter Marzlin, Bryce Fitzgerald

Publication date 9 May 2018

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02224

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Quantum optics (81V80)

Abstract: We derive spontaneous emission rate and line shift for two-level atoms coupled to the radiation field using causal perturbation theory. In this approach, employing the theory of distribution splitting prevents the occurrence of divergent integrals. Our method confirms the result for atomic decay rate but suggests that the cutoff frequency for the atomic line shift is determined by the atomic mass, rather than Bohr radius or electron mass.

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