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Lamb shift

In physics, the Lamb shift, named after Willis Lamb (1913–2008), is a small difference in energy between two energy levels 2''S''1/2 and 2''P''1/2 (in term symbol notation) of the hydrogen atom in quantum electrodynamics (QED). According to the Dirac equation, the 2''S''1/2 and 2''P''1/2 orbitals should have the same energy. However, the interaction between the electron and the vacuum (which is not accounted for by the Dirac equation) causes a tiny energy shift which is different for states 2''S''1/2 and 2''P''1/2. Lamb and Robert Retherford measured this shift in 1947,〔
〕 and this measurement provided the stimulus for renormalization theory to handle the divergences. It was the harbinger of modern quantum electrodynamics developed by Julian Schwinger, Richard Feynman, Ernst Stueckelberg and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. Lamb won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 for his discoveries related to the Lamb shift.
== Derivation ==
This heuristic derivation of the electrodynamic level shift following Welton is from ''Quantum Optics''.
The fluctuation in the electric and magnetic fields associated with the QED vacuum perturbs the electric potential due to the atomic nucleus. This perturbation causes a fluctuation in the position of the electron, which explains the energy shift. The difference of potential energy is given by
:\Delta V = V(\vec+\delta \vec)-V(\vec)=\delta \vec \cdot \nabla V + \frac (\delta \vec \cdot \nabla)^2V(\vec)+...
Since the fluctuations are isotropic,
:\langle \delta \vec \rangle _ =0
:\langle (\delta \vec \cdot \nabla )^2 \rangle _ = \frac \langle (\delta \vec)^2\rangle _ \nabla ^2.
So we can obtain
:\langle \Delta V\rangle =\frac \langle (\delta \vec)^2\rangle _\left\langle \nabla ^2\left(\frac\right)\right\rangle _.
The classical equation of motion for the electron displacement (''δr'') induced by a single mode of the field of wave vector and frequency ''ν'' is
:m\frac (\delta r)_},
and this is valid only when the frequency ''ν'' is greater than ''ν''0 in the Bohr orbit, ''ν'' > ''πc''/''a''0. The electron is unable to respond to the fluctuating field if the fluctuations are smaller than the natural orbital frequency in the atom.
For the field oscillating at ''ν'',
:\delta r(t)\cong \delta r(0)e^+c.c.,
therefore
:(\delta r)_ E_ \mathcal _}e^}+h.c.).
By the summation over all \vec,
:\langle (\delta \vec )^2\rangle _=\sum_ \right)^2\langle 0|(E_} \left(\frac \right)^2\left(\frac \right),
where \Omega is some large normalization volume (the volume of the hypothetical "box" containing the hydrogen atom) and
:\mathcal _.
The summation is changed into an integral because of the continuity of , \sum_ \int d^3 k , so that
:\langle (\delta \vec )^2\rangle _=2\frac4\pi \int dkk^2\left(\frac \right)^2\left(\frac\right)=\frac\left(\frac\right)\left(\frac\right)^2\int \frac.
This result diverges when no limits about the integral (at both large and small frequencies). As mentioned above, this method is expected to be valid only when ''ν'' > ''πc''/''a''0, or equivalently ''k'' > ''π''/''a''0. It is also valid only for wavelengths longer than the Compton wavelength, or equivalently ''k'' < ''mc''/''ħ''. Therefore we can choose the upper and lower limit of the integral and these limits make the result converge.
:\langle(\delta\vec)^2\rangle_\cong\frac\left(\frac\right)\left(\frac\right)^2\ln\frac.
For the atomic orbital and the Coulomb potential,
:\left\langle\nabla^2\left(\frac\right)\right\rangle_=\frac\int d\vec\psi^
*(\vec)\nabla^2\left(\frac\right)\psi(\vec)=\frac|\psi(0)|^2,
since we know that
:\nabla^2\left(\frac\right)=-4\pi\delta(\vec).
For ''p'' orbitals, the nonrelativistic wave function vanishes at the origin, so there is no energy shift. But for ''s'' orbitals there is some finite value at the origin,
:\psi_(0)=\frac.
Therefore
:\left\langle\nabla^2\left(\frac\right)\right\rangle_=\frac|\psi_(0)|^2=\frac.
Finally, the difference of the potential energy becomes
:\langle\Delta V\rangle=\frac\frac\frac\left(\frac\right)^2\frac\ln\frac = \alpha^5 mc^2 \frac \ln\frac,
where \alpha is the Fine-structure constant.
This shift is about 1 GHz, very similar with the observed energy shift.

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