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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Non-Markovian treatment of the spontaneous 2P1/2to 1S1/2transition in the Dirac hydrogen atom

JOSIP SEKE

Published Feb 7, 1992• 14 citations
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Abstract

For the first time to the author's knowledge, a rigorous mathematical treatment of the spontaneous 2P 1/2 to 1S 1/2 transition, going beyond the usual Markov approximation, is presented in the case of the Dirac hydrogen atom. The relevant transition matrix elements of the Dirac Hamiltonian are calculated without the dipole approximation. Further, a non-Markovian equation of motion for the non-decay probability of the unstable 2P 1/2 2 state is derived, by using a self-consistent projection-operator method recently developed by the present author. By a rigorous analytical treatment of the non-Markovian equation, deviations from exponential decay for asymptotic times are obtained. Moreover, by careful error estimations deviations from exponential decay for finite times with definite validity range are also calculated. Finally, for the radiative lineshape a new quasi-Lorentzian distribution is obtained.

DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/25/3/025

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It is shown that the application of a self-consistent projection-operator method, developed recently by the author, makes a complete treatment of the spontaneously decaying atomic state in relativistic QED possible. In a new physical real-transition interaction picture (in which the unobservable interaction of the free electron with the vacuum radiation field is eliminated) explicit finite analytic results for the non-Markovian time evolution and the radiative line shape in the case of relativistic Lyman-α spontaneous emission are obtained.
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For the first time to the authors' knowledge a mathematically rigorous method is used for treating finite-time deviations from the exponential decay in the case of spontaneous Lyman-\ensuremath{\alpha} transitions in a two-level hydrogenic atom. First, in the so-called Weisskopf-Wigner model (where the rotating-wave approximation is implied) finite-time deviations with a rigorous validity range, based on accurate error estimations, are derived. Second, in order to obtain the frequency shift (Lamb shift), counter-rotating terms are taken into account by using a projection-operator method developed a decade ago by one of the present authors [J. Seke, Phys. Rev. A 21, 2156 (1980)]. By means of this method, equations of motion for dipole-moment expectation values are derived without employing the usual Born approximation. These equations are solved by using the method of the Laplace transform and its inverse. Again finite-time deviations from the exponential decay of the dipole-moment expectation values with a definite validity range are obtained. Finally, it should be emphasized that all the results presented in this paper contain accurate error estimates which are absolutely necessary in a rigorous mathematical method.