Mass Renormalization and Energy Level Shift in Non-Relativistic QED

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2002-05-29

arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0205044v3

Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 6, 847 (2002)

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Mathematical Physics

amslatex, 22 pages; to appear in Adv. Theor. Math. Phys

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Using the Pauli-Fierz model of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics, we calculate the binding energy of an electron in the field of a nucleus of charge $Z$ and in presence of the quantized radiation field. We consider the case of small coupling constant $\alpha$, but fixed $Z\alpha$ and ultraviolet cut-off $\Lambda$. We prove that after renormalizing the mass the binding energy has, to leading order in $\alpha$, a finite limit as $\Lambda$ goes to infinity; i.e., the cut-off can be removed. The expression for the ground state energy shift thus obtained agrees with Bethe's formula for small values of $Z\alpha$, but shows a different behavior for bigger values.

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