QED tests with highly charged ions

P Indelicato - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The current status of bound state quantum electrodynamics calculations of transition
energies for few-electron ions is reviewed. Evaluation of one and two body QED correction …

Atomic structure calculations of helium with correlated exponential functions

VA Yerokhin, V Patkóš, K Pachucki - Symmetry, 2021 - mdpi.com
The technique of quantum electrodynamics (QED) calculations of energy levels in the
helium atom is reviewed. The calculations start with the solution of the Schrödinger equation …

Testing fundamental interactions on the helium atom

K Pachucki, V Patkóš, VA Yerokhin - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We critically examine the current status of theoretical calculations of the energies, the fine
structure, and the isotope shift of the lowest-lying states of helium, searching for unresolved …

Probing new spin-independent interactions through precision spectroscopy in atoms with few electrons

C Delaunay, C Frugiuele, E Fuchs, Y Soreq - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
The very high precision of current measurements and theory predictions of spectral lines in
few-electron atoms allows us to efficiently probe the existence of exotic forces between …

Precision spectroscopy of helium in a magic wavelength optical dipole trap

RJ Rengelink, Y Van Der Werf, R Notermans… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Improvements in both theory and frequency metrology of few-electron systems such as
hydrogen and helium have enabled increasingly sensitive tests of quantum …

Metrology in a two-electron atom: The ionization energy of metastable triplet helium

G Clausen, K Gamlin, JA Agner, H Schmutz, F Merkt - Physical Review A, 2025 - APS
Helium (He) is the ideal atom to perform tests of ab initio calculations in two-electron
systems that consider all known effects, including quantum-electrodynamics and nuclear …

Relativistic corrections to the Bethe logarithm for the and states of He

VA Yerokhin, V Patkóš, K Pachucki - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
With this work we start a project calculating the QED contribution of order α 7 m to the 2 P 3–
2 S 3 transition energy in helium, aiming for an accurate determination of the nuclear charge …

Precision Calculation of Hyperfine Structure and the Zemach Radii of Ions

XQ Qi, PP Zhang, ZC Yan, GWF Drake, ZX Zhong… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
The hyperfine structures of the 2 S 3 1 states of the Li+ 6 and Li+ 7 ions are investigated
theoretically to extract the Zemach radii of the Li 6 and Li 7 nuclei by comparing with …

High-Precision Spectroscopy of the Forbidden Transition in Quantum Degenerate Metastable Helium

R Notermans, W Vassen - Physical Review Letters, 2014 - APS
We have measured the forbidden 2 S 1 3→ 2 P 1 1 transition at 887 nm in a quantum
degenerate gas of metastable He 4 atoms confined in an optical dipole trap. The determined …

QED calculation of ionization energies of states in helium

VA Yerokhin, V Patkóš, M Puchalski, K Pachucki - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Quantum electrodynamical (QED) calculations of ionization energies of the 1 snd D states
are performed for the helium atom. We reproduce the previously known relativistic and QED …