In physics, the Lamb shift, named after Willis Lamb, is an anomalous difference in energy between two electron orbitals in a hydrogen atom. The difference...

hydrogen spectrum". Lamb was able to precisely determine a surprising shift in electron energies in a hydrogen atom (see Lamb shift). Lamb was a professor...

quantized vacuum field, leading to slight shifts in energy; this effect is called the Lamb shift. The shift of about 4.38×10−6 eV is roughly 10−7 of the...

explanation for the Lamb shift according to quantum electrodynamics (QED). Ed Jaynes proposed an alternate model where the Lamb-like shift is due instead to...

1947, he wrote an important paper which provided the calculation of the Lamb shift, which is credited with revolutionizing quantum electrodynamics and further...

famous experiment (now known as the Lamb–Retherford experiment) revealing Lamb shift in the fine structure of hydrogen, a decisive experimental step toward...

because the muon has no internal structure: α−1 = 137.035994(18). The Lamb shift is a small difference in the energies of the 2 S1/2 and 2 P1/2 energy...

predicted by the Dirac theory; this became known as the Lamb shift. Lamb had discovered the shift a few weeks before (with Robert Retherford), so this was...

not physically real. Virtual photons are responsible for Lamb shift, which is a small shift in the energy levels of hydrogen atoms caused by the interaction...

quantities like the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron and the Lamb shift of the energy levels of hydrogen.: Ch1  It is the most precise and stringently...

orbitals to asymmetric 2p orbitals of hydrogen, a difference known as the Lamb shift. The exact values of the energy levels are sensitive to the distribution...

Lamb shift was discovered: a small difference in the 2S1⁄2 and 2P1⁄2 levels of hydrogen, due to the interaction between the electron and vacuum. Lamb...

various phenomena such as spontaneous emission, the Casimir effect, and the Lamb shift, and are thought to influence the behavior of the Universe on cosmological...

slightly different. Another mechanism that affects only the s-state is the Lamb shift, a further, smaller correction that arises in quantum electrodynamics...

first observations which was evidence for vacuum fluctuations was the Lamb shift in hydrogen. In July 2020, scientists reported that quantum vacuum fluctuations...

to determine the accuracy of theoretical predictions. For example, the Lamb shift measured in the hydrogen atomic absorption spectrum was not expected to...

that can "run in the cycle". The Casimir effect, Hawking radiation and Lamb shift are examples of phenomena whose existence can be implied using one-loop...

international research team published a proton charge radius measurement via the Lamb shift in muonic hydrogen (an exotic atom made of a proton and a negatively charged...

the quantum electrodynamic corrections in atomic physics such as the Lamb shift as the interaction of non-relativistic treated electrons with stochastic...

comes to physical interpretations of various QED processes including the Lamb shift, van der Waals forces, and Casimir effects." This point of view is also...

achievements of the experimentalists, who reported the discovery of the Lamb shift, the measurement of the magnetic moment of the electron, and Robert Marshak's...

solution. The energy levels of hydrogen, including fine structure (excluding Lamb shift and hyperfine structure), are given by the Sommerfeld fine-structure expression:...

predictions of QED, such as the magnetic dipole moment of leptons, the Lamb shift, and the hyperfine structure of bound lepton pairs, such as muonium and...

Neutrino-Emission Processes 1985 Quantum Electrodynamics Based on Self-Energy: Lamb Shift and Spontaneous Emission without Field Quantization 1985 Zitterbewegung...

energy levels of the hydrogen atom, Isidor Rabi made measurements of the Lamb shift and the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the electron. These effects...

Willis Lamb and Robert Retherford measured the minute difference in the 2S1/2 and 2P1/2 energy levels of the hydrogen atom, also called the Lamb shift. By...

spectrum was an early success of quantum mechanics and explained the Lamb shift observed in the hydrogen spectrum, which further led to the development...

should have the same energy, were shifted in relation to each other; the difference came to be called the Lamb shift. About the same time, Polykarp Kusch...

involves improving the uncertainty in QED calculations, specifically the Lamb shift in the 1s-2s transition of the hydrogen atom. A redefinition must include...

independently of Julian Schwinger and calculated physical quantities such as the Lamb shift at the same time. In 1949, he was invited by Robert Oppenheimer to work...