Retardation in the atomic pair polarizability
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| Publication date | 1977 |
| Journal | Chemical Physics Letters |
| Volume | Issue number | 46 |
| Pages (from-to) | 391-394 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
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| Abstract | The atomic pair polarizability for hydrogen atoms is calculated within the framework of covariant quantum electrodynamics. Retardation effects are shown to change the dependence on the interatomic separation R from R/sup -6/ to R/sup -7/ for R large compared with a characteristic wavelength of the atomic spectrum. For harmonic oscillators the pair polarizability is proved to be independent of the interparticle interaction |
| Document type | Article |
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https://doi.org/10.1016/0009-2614(77)85290-1
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