QED corrections in heavy atoms

PJ Mohr, G Plunien, G Soff - Physics Reports, 1998 - Elsevier
The comparison of theory and experiment for energy levels of strongly bound electrons
provides a critical test of quantum electrodynamics in strong fields. A theoretical evaluation …

Theoretical methods for the relativistic atomic many-body problem

J Sapirstein - Reviews of Modern Physics, 1998 - APS
Because of the well-understood nature of the electromagnetic interaction, the presence of a
well-defined center of force, and the relative unimportance of nonperturbative effects, the …

Open-shell relativistic coupled-cluster method with Dirac-Fock-Breit wave functions: Energies of the gold atom and its cation

E Eliav, U Kaldor, Y Ishikawa - Physical Review A, 1994 - APS
The relativistic Fock-space coupled cluster method for the direct calculation of ionization
potentials and excitation energies (including fine structure) is presented and applied to …

Transition energies of ytterbium, lutetium, and lawrencium by the relativistic coupled-cluster method

E Eliav, U Kaldor, Y Ishikawa - Physical Review A, 1995 - APS
The relativistic Fock-space coupled-cluster method was applied to the Yb, Lu, and Lr atoms,
and to several of their ions. A large number of transition energies was calculated for these …

Full QED calculations of two-photon exchange for heliumlike systems: Analysis in the Coulomb and Feynman gauges

I Lindgren, H Persson, S Salomonson, L Labzowsky - Physical Review A, 1995 - APS
A complete, numerical calculation of the effect of the exchange of two virtual photons
between the electrons in the ground states of heliumlike systems is presented. Feynman …

Relativistic and QED corrections for the beryllium atom

K Pachucki, J Komasa - Physical review letters, 2004 - APS
Complete relativistic and quantum electrodynamics corrections of order α 2 Ry and α 3 Ry
are calculated for the ground state of the beryllium atom and its positive ion. A basis set of …

Explicitly correlated Gaussian functions in variational calculations: The ground state of the beryllium atom

J Komasa, W Cencek, J Rychlewski - Physical Review A, 1995 - APS
Explicitly correlated Gaussian functions are applied to extensive variational calculations of
the 1 S ground state of the beryllium atom. The convergence of the energy with respect to …

Ionization potentials and excitation energies of the alkali-metal atoms by the relativistic coupled-cluster method

E Eliav, U Kaldor, Y Ishikawa - Physical Review A, 1994 - APS
Ground-and excited-state energies, as well as ionization potentials and electron affinities,
are calculated for all the alkali-metal atoms Li–Fr by the relativistic Fock-space coupled …

The historical development of the electron correlation problem

PO Löwdin - International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
A brief review is given of the historical development of the treatment of the correlation
problem in solving the Schrödinger equation in modern quantum theory from the early …

The relativistic Fock-space coupled-cluster method for molecules: CdH and its ions

E Eliav, U Kaldor, BA Hess - The Journal of chemical physics, 1998 - pubs.aip.org
The relativistic coupled-cluster method starts from the Dirac–Coulomb–Breit Hamiltonian in
its low-frequency approximation and includes correlation by Fock-space coupled-cluster …