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 …

Complete Lamb shift of helium triplet states

V Patkóš, VA Yerokhin, K Pachucki - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We have derived the complete formula for the α 7 m contribution to energy levels of an
arbitrary triplet state of the helium atom, performed numerical calculations for the 2 3 S and 2 …

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 …

Ionization Energy of the Metastable State of from Rydberg-Series Extrapolation

G Clausen, P Jansen, S Scheidegger, JA Agner… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
In a recent breakthrough in first-principles calculations of two-electron systems, Patkóś,
Yerokhin, and Pachucki [Phys. Rev. A 103, 042809 (2021) PLRAAN 2469-9926 …

Measurement of the Frequency of the Transition of

X Zheng, YR Sun, JJ Chen, W Jiang, K Pachucki… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
The 2 S 3–2 P 3 transition of He 4 was measured by comb-linked laser spectroscopy using a
transverse-cooled atomic beam. The centroid frequency was determined to be 276 736 495 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …