The high-order nonrelativistic Hamiltonian of electromagnetic system
Abstract
The nonrelativistic Hamiltonians of scalar, spinor and vector particles in the electromagnetic field are studied by applying the Douglas-Kroll-Hess approach. Their relativistic Hamiltonians are expanded on the potential, and the Hamiltonians containing one- and two-photon potentials are derived. The nonrelativistic Hamiltonians up to order are obtained by applying Taylor expansion on momentum, and the result of spin-1/2 spinor is coincided with the result obtained by applying scattering matching approach in the Ref. [Phys. Rev. A 100, 012513 (2019)]. Then, the singularities in Hamiltonian of Coulomb systems are separated out and cancelled. The regularized Hamiltonian up to order for scaler and electron in Coulomb field are obtained. The numerical results of relativistic corrections are coincided with the relativistic theory. The regularized Hamiltonian up to for multi-electrons in Coulomb field are also derived.
pacs:
31.30.jv, 31.30.jyI INTRODUCTION
The nonrelativistic few-body atomic and molecular systems like hydrogen, helium, lithium and hydrogen molecular ions, are widely studied. Because of the astonishing accuracy of spectroscopy measurements, those systems are advised to determine the fundamental physical constants and search the hint of the new physics beyond the standard model Schiller et al. (2014); Zheng et al. (2017a); Mohr et al. (2016); Safronova et al. (2018). In the aspects of theories, the nonrelativistic energy of systems can be calculated with very high accuracy by applying Hyllerass algorithm Hylleraas (1928, 1929); Yan and Drake (1996); Drake et al. (2002); Wang et al. (2012). The relativistic and radiative corrections are calculated by applying perturbation theory. The key point is deriving the formula of the relativistic and radiative corrections.
There are two famous methods obtaining the relativistic and radiative corrections to the nonrelativistic systems. One is an effective field theory proposed by Pachucki et.al. Its low-energy effective Hamiltonian is the Foldy-Wouthuysen (FW) transformed Hamiltonian Foldy and Wouthuysen (1950); Zatorski and Pachucki (2010). The effective currents of electron coupling with electromagnetic field can be extracted from the FW Hamiltonian, and the high-order interactions between the electrons and the self-energy correction can be derived by using the currentsPachucki and Yerokhin (2010); Pachucki (2005); Patkóš et al. (2016, 2017); Jentschura et al. (2005); Pachucki (2006). Another method is the nonrelativistic quantum electrodynamics (NRQED), proposed by W. Caswell and G. Lepage Caswell and Lepage (1986) and successfully be applied on positronium and muoniumKinoshita and Nio (1996); Nio and Kinoshita (1997). The low-energy effective Hamiltonian of NRQED consists of all possible local interactions satisfying the required symmetries of quantum electrodynamics (QED). And the coefficients of the interaction terms of the effective Hamiltonian are fixed by scattering matching approachCaswell and Lepage (1986): the scattering amplitude of the NRQED must be coincided with the corresponding scattering amplitude of the QED at given energy scale. The great difference between the two method is that their effective Hamiltonians are different.
Both the high-order energy corrections and operator of Hamiltonians can be expanded with the fine-structure constant Eides et al. (2001); Kinoshita and Nio (1996); Nio and Kinoshita (1997). For helium, the energy correction for helium up to and the fine-structure correction up to have been obtained Pachucki (2005); Pachucki and Yerokhin (2010); Patkóš et al. (2019). The energy correction up to order of allowed one to directly extract the nuclear charge radii Pachucki et al. (2017); Patkóš et al. (2021). The values of nuclear charge radii extracted from transitions and have notable discrepancy Van Rooij et al. (2011); Rengelink et al. (2018); Zheng et al. (2017b). For hydrogen molecular ions, ionization energies and fundamental vibrational transitions are calculated up to order Korobov et al. (2017). The loop corrections are estimated, and the relativistic corrections haven’t derived. The corrections could be a very big challenge for theoretical study in nowadays. Its result will improve both theoretical accuracy of spectroscopy experiment and fundamental physical constants Pachucki and Yerokhin (2010); Pachucki et al. (2017); Mohr et al. (2008). One purpose of this work is deriving the order FW hamiltonian. Another purpose is testing the equivalence of Pachucki’s effective field theory and NRQED by comparing the FW Hamiltonian and NRQED Hamiltonian. The FW Hamiltonian of spinor up to was obtained by Ref. MEI Xue-Song (2014). In Ref. Zhou et al. (2019), the order NRQED Hamiltonian was obtained by using scattering matching approach at the tree diagram level. It is coincided with the FW Hamiltonian at order. At order we find that there may be some imperceptible mistakes in Ref. MEI Xue-Song (2014). It should be rechecked independently.
The FW transformation is unitary transformation that can decouple the positive energy parts and the negative energy part of particles in the low-energy region. By applying the FW transformation, the relativistic Hamiltonians are expanded on the momentum and potential of charged particles. The traditional approach of FW transformation becomes rather tedious in the higher-order. The Douglas-Kroll-Hess (DKH) approach Douglas and Kroll (1974); Hess (1986); Luber et al. (2009); Reiher and Wolf (2004a, b) is the alternative approach of FW transformation. The relativistic Hamiltonians are expanded on the potential of charged particles. It is two-component relativistic Hamiltonian for fermion. However, the DKH Hamiltonian is too complicated to be combined with Hyllerass algorithm Hylleraas (1928, 1929); Yan and Drake (1996); Drake et al. (2002); Wang et al. (2012), which is the most accurate method for calculating the electrons’ correlation. The DKH Hamiltonian should be expanded on momentum to obtain the FW Hamiltonian. This DHK-FW approach is easier than the FW approach. In this work, DHK-FW method is applied to derive the order FW Hamiltonian of spin-1/2 case and compare them with the results obtained by scattering approaching Zhou et al. (2019); Caswell and Lepage (1986). Furthermore, the effective Hamiltonians for spin-0 and spin 1 cases also derived. It is essential for deriving the interactions between electrons and integer spin heavier particle, such as nucleus, muon or vector meson. The higher-order interactions between the electrons and integer spin heavier particle can be derived by using the currents extracted from the FW Hamiltonian. It is essential for deriving the recoil effect of spin heavier particle and isotopic shift.
The FW Hamiltonian is singular at high order. For example, the relativistic kinetic energy is proportional to for s state of hydrogen, and the expectation value of Hamiltonian is always divergent. The second perturbation term such as also contains divergent part. All the divergent parts in the higher-order energy corrections should be cancelled exactly. Because the FW Hamiltonian is unitary equivalent to the relativistic Hamiltonian, their eigenvalue are equal and finite. It is essential to separate and cancel the singular terms from original nonrelativistic Hamiltonian, and then deriving the calculable formula. In this work, we study the Coulomb Hamiltonian and cancel the divergence by applying transformation. Then, we obtain an equivalent formula of energy correction. In the transformed formula, Most singularities of the FW Hamiltonian are cancelled directly. The regularized Coulomb Hamiltonians up to order for scaler and electron are obtained. The regularized Hamiltonian up to for multi-electrons in Coulomb field are also derived. The singularities always appear in the high-order correction, such as the relativistic correction, radiative correction and photon-exchanging interactions. It is essential to cancel all the divergences. The singularities of the total Hamiltonian up to order were cancelled togetherPachucki (2006). Our study will indicate the singularities can be cancelled part by part. It also simplifies the verifying the correctness of the theoretical results in the higher-order.
In Sec. II, we derive the FW Hamiltonians of the spin-1/2, spin-0 and spin-1 particles separately by using DKH-FW approach. In Sec. III, The singularities of Coulomb Hamiltonian are studied. We derive the order regularized Coulomb Hamiltonians of the scaler and electron, and order regularized Coulomb Hamiltonians of multi-electron systems. In Sec. IV, the derived formulas are checked. The relativistic corrections to energy of scalar and electron in Coulomb field are calculated by using the regularized Coulomb Hamiltonians. The results are coincided with energy of relativistic theory. Conclusion is given in Sec. V.
II The nonrelativistic Hamiltonians of scalar, spinor and vector particles
II.1 Spin-1/2 case
II.1.1 Spinor in electromagnetic field
The relativistic spin-1/2 fermion in the electromagnetic field is described by the Dirac Hamiltonian , where , is Pauli matrix, and . In this work, the velocity of light and the mass and charges of particles are chosen as unit one, and the form factor and multi-pole terms are neglected for simplification.
In the rest frame, the two upper components of spinor wave function are the freedom of positive energy particle, and the lower components are the freedom of negative energy particle. The positive part couples with the negative part due by the off-diagonal matrices like . These off-diagonal matrices are defined as odd terms, and the diagonal parts of the Hamiltonian are defined as even terms. By applying Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation, the odd terms become negligible higher-order terms, and the positive part can be decoupled with the negative parts in the low-energy region.
The FW Hamiltonian can be derived by commutator form Zatorski and Pachucki (2010)
(1) |
where recurrence relations and are used. According to the commutator, the odd terms can be suppressed to smaller contributions and make the positive and negative part no longer coupling with each other up to the accuracy of requirements. However, with the increase of the order of magnitude, this process will become bloated and complicated. Because the decoupling is synchronized with the momentum expansion and potential expansion in the traditional FW transformation.
By DKH approach, the Hamiltonian is expanded with the electromagnetic potential. The first transformation will produce the exact form of the relativistic energy of free particle, and the reminder odd terms are eliminated by applying subsequent transformation Eq.(1). The Hamiltonian is expanded in the power of the potential.
For spin-1/2 fermion, the first transformation is , where and . The transformed Hamiltonian can be written as
(2) |
The first two terms are even terms, represents the odd terms. The relativistic kinetic energy is exact here. The even one-photon terms only contain one scalar potential term
(3) |
and the one-photon odd terms are
(4) |
The odd one-photon terms can be eliminated by applying another unitary transformation . The first-order Eq.(1) is , and can be derived by the recurrence relation,
(5) |
the curly braces is anti-commutator.
The second transformed Hamiltonian is
(6) |
where
(7) |
are even two-photons terms, which contains two scalar potential. The odd two-photons terms and the terms containing more than two scalar potential are neglected here.
The Hamiltonian Eq.(6) can be expanded on momentum to arbitrary order. In the Coulomb bound system, the order of magnitude of electromagnetic potential is counted as , and . Then Eq.(6) is expanded on momentum or the fine-structure constant . The effective Hamiltonian (FW) up to is
(8) | ||||
where the tilde is abbreviation defined as . This result is coincided with the result obtained by scattering matching approach in Ref. Zhou et al. (2019).
It is beneficial to compare these two methods. In Ref. Zhou et al. (2019), one-photon terms are derived by expanding fermion-photon scattering amplitude on 3-momentums, where is the free positive-energy Dirac spinor. The expansion of is , and are coincided with one-photon potential even terms given above. There are another two fermion-photon scattering processes and . They are the coupling terms between photon , positive-energy states and negative-energy states . It is corresponding to the one-photon odd terms . In the low-energy region, free negative state is decoupled. But the contribution of negative-energy parts to the intermediate state should be considered. The positive-energy state can transit to negative-energy intermediate state, and transits back to positive-energy state. Because the energy of intermediate state , the Green function of the intermediate state can be replaced with . The contribution of negative-energy intermediate state is proportional to the product of , and . It is corresponding to the product of and in the Eq.(7). Through comparison of above results and method, it can be concluded that: the DKH-FW approach is equivalent to scattering matching at order.
II.1.2 The nonrelativistic approximation of Dirac-Coulomb Hamiltonian
The relativistic energy can be calculated by using the Dirac-Coulomb(DC) Hamiltonian. The DC Hamiltonian is
(9) |
where the Coulomb potential is
(10) |
It contains both the electron-electron (subscript i,a) and electron-nucleus interaction (subscript a,b).
The nonrelativistic approximation of Dirac-Coulomb Hamiltonian can be obtained by using the similar method. In this subsection, we will study the two electrons systems, and the results can be extended to the general case.
The first transformation also produces the exact form of the relativistic energy . It is the same as the form in Eq.(2)
(11) |
where , , and
(12) | ||||
The subscript is abbreviated as even and odd. is even for first particle and odd for second particle, etc.
The odd terms or odd-even-mixing terms should be eliminated by applying another transformation Eq.(1)
(13) | ||||
The last terms are two-photon terms, and the ellipsis is the multi-photon term, which is order. The satisfies the first-order Eq.(1)
(14) |
It can be solved by using iteration method. The result is
(15) |
where
(16) |
(17) |
(18) |
and
(19) |
The nonrelativisitc approximation of Dirac-Coulomb Hamiltonian can be obtained by applying momentum expansion. The transformed Hamiltonian up to order is
(20) | ||||
The first two terms are Shrdinger Hamiltonian. The third term is the leading order of relativistic corrections, and it is order. The second and third lines are order. Although it is nonrelativisitc Hamiltonian of two electrons system, this result is appropriate to multi-electron atom. It can be proved by using the similar method.
The order terms of Hamiltonian of two electrons systems are
(21) | ||||
where the summation and are omitted.
II.2 Spin-0 case
In the electromagnetic field, the equation of the scalar field is . The positive energy part and the negative part wave functions are respectively and Zatorski and Pachucki (2010), where the is the positivenegative project operator. In the rest reference frame, positive state satisfies , and negative state satisfies .
One can find out that the equation of scalar field equivalent expression is , where , and the Hamitonian is
(22) |
In this Hamiltonian, the positive energy part couple with the negative part through . The terms containing is odd. The purpose of FW and DKH transformation is reducing the odd term to be insignificant. The transformations of wave function and Hamiltonian are and . The satisfy , and is a Hermitian operator. Because the normalization condition of the is .
Let , and . The transformed Hamiltonian is
(23) |
The even one-photon terms and odd one-photon terms are
(24) |
and
(25) |
where and .
The odd one-photon terms can be eliminated by applying another transformation . The transformed Hamiltonian can be obtained by using the expanded formula
(26) | ||||
Its one order term satisfies , where can be derived by the recurrence relation,
(27) |
The transformed Hamiltonian is
(28) |
where , and higher-order terms are neglected.
The nonrelativistic Hamiltonian up to order can be obtained by expanding on momentum. It is
(29) | ||||
The first three terms are Hamiltonian up to . This result is coincided with the part without the form factor and multi-pole terms in Ref. Zatorski and Pachucki (2010). The second line is order Hamiltonian.
II.3 Spin-1 case
The vector field equation in the electromagnetic with minimal coupling is , where represents the vector field. The positive energy part and the negative part of the particle are and Zatorski and Pachucki (2010). In the rest reference frame, positive state satisfies , and negative state satisfies . The index is the polarization direction of the vector field.
The vector field is . And its equation of motion is , where the Hamiltonian is
(30) |
is the magnetic field, and is the spin operator of the vector field. Because spin is internal degrees, the equation and Hamiltonian can be expressed as and
(31) | ||||
In the second line, the first two terms are Hamiltonian of free particle, and the last two terms are even and odd interactions
(32) |
For spin-1 particle, the relativistic Hamiltonian will be expanded with electromagnetic potential . The transformations of wave function and Hamiltonian are and . The satisfy , and is Hermitian operator. After performing the transformation , where , and , the transformed Hamitonian is
(33) |
and one-photon terms are
(34) | ||||
The odd one-photon terms can be cancelled by using Eq.(26). The is
(35) |
The second transformed Hamiltonian is
(36) |
where is the two-photons term. And higher-order terms are neglected.
The FW Hamiltonian up to order can be obtained by expanding with momentum. It is
(37) | ||||
where the tilde is defined as . The first two line is Hamiltonian up to order, and the rest are order terms.
III Elimination of singularities
The nonrelativistic Hamiltonians of Coulomb Bound state are expanded on , or equivalent term ,
(38) |
is the Scdinger Hamiltonian, which is order. , and are , and order. The relativistic corrections are calculated by using the perturbation theory. At the order, it is . The expected value is finite for Coulomb Bound state, and can be calculated directly.
The and order energy corrections are
(39) |
and
(40) | ||||
where and is the perturbed state. The singularities will appear in these terms, and their expected values are infinite. For example, the total contribution of contains and terms. They are divergent for s states of hydrogen. The second perturbation term is also divergent. These divergent parts should be cancelled exactly. Because the nonrelativistic Hamiltonian is unitary equivalent to the relativistic Hamiltonian, which has finite eigenvalues. It is essential to separate and cancel the singular terms from original nonrelativistic Hamiltonian, and then deriving the calculable formula.
Some conventions are adopted to simplify the derivation. Two operators are defined as and . are energy of perturbed state and the Coulomb interaction. Then the operators and are expanded by the following formula
(41) |
where .
Because is the perturbed state, . The leading order energy correction is
(42) |
and the order energy correction is equal to
(43) |
where
(44) |
The last three term is separated from the . If all the singular terms in can be are cancelled. Then other terms in are finite.
At order, the relativistic correction is equal to
(45) |
where
(46) | ||||
It maybe contains singularities in . We can expand to cancel the singularities by applying a similar strategy. In order to illustrate this method is effective, we will study the Hamiltonians of scalar and fermion.
III.1 Scalar particle in Coulomb field
The order Hamiltonian of scalar particle in Coulomb field obtained in Sec.II is
(47) | ||||
where is the Coulomb potential. The relativistic corrections to Hamiltonian are
(48) |
(49) | ||||
and
(50) | ||||
where the is used. The means . The difference between and doesn’t contribute to the order energy.
(52) | ||||
and
(53) | ||||
where the regularized Hamiltonians are , , and . All the terms in the , and are finite. We will give some numerical results in the next section.
III.2 Electron in Coulomb field
The Hamiltonian of electron in Coulomb field is
(54) | ||||
, and is the Coulomb potential. The last two terms in the first line is order. It is easy to check that they are spin-orbit coupling terms and Darwin terms. The second line is order terms and third and fourth lines are order terms. It is the Hamiltonian of hydrogen-like atoms or Hydrogen molecular ion. They are different in potential . The specific form of are not applied in this section.
By using and , the relativistic Hamiltonian are transformed to the by applying Eq.(41). The order Hamiltonian is
(55) |
and
(56) | ||||
The order Hamiltonian is
(57) | ||||
and
(58) | ||||
The order Hamiltonian
(59) | ||||
and
(60) | ||||
The terms and are neglected. Because , their contributions to order energy correction is zero.
The relativistic corrections to the energy can be derived by using the Eq.(42)(43)(44)(45)(46). The order energy correction is
(61) |
At the order, the energy corrections can be obtained by using the Eq.(43) (44)
(62) |
The regularized is
(63) | ||||
where the equation (Eq.(91)) is applied, and all singular terms, such as the and in are cancelled. The regularized order energy is
(64) |
All the terms in the equation is finite.
The order the energy correction is derived by using Eq.(45),(46). However, these terms are still divergent for electron. Define . The energy correction in Eq.(45) is equal to
(65) |
and the regularized is
(66) |
Almost all singular terms except in can be cancelled by using the equations and (Eq.(91)).
Then, the order the energy correction is
(67) | ||||
All the terms in the second line are finite. In the first line, each term is divergent for s state. A further regularized procedure should be applied. And the first three terms in the first line should be calculated together. By applying , the second and third terms in the first line can be absorbed into first terms. The energy correction is
(68) | ||||
All the divergent parts are combined in the first term. The results is finite. We will give some numerical results of hydrogen in next section.
III.3 Multi-electron systems in Coulomb field
The Hamiltonian of multi-electron systems in Coulomb field is
(69) | ||||
where the Coulomb interactions
(70) |
contains both the electron-electron (subscript i,a) and electron-nucleus interaction (subscript a,b).
Relativistic correction to Hamiltonian and are transformed by the same method. The order corrections to Hamiltonian is
(71) | ||||
and
(72) | ||||
The order correction to Hamiltonian
(73) | ||||
and
(74) | ||||
The terms and are neglected.
The order energy correction is
(75) |
At order, the terms and are divergent. The divergent parts are
(76) | ||||
and
(77) |
All the divergence can be cancelled by using the equations (Eq.(91)), and the total contribution of order energy is
(78) | ||||
All the terms are finite. It can be proved by the following reason. The divergence always appears when one electron approaches the nucleus. It is obvious the first term is finite for s state of Slater-type functions. The summation of power of and in the formula except first term is less than three. All terms are finite when . It applies to other electrons.
IV The relativistic correction of scalar particle and electron in Coulomb field
We will check the formula deriving in this work by comparing their expectation values with the analytic relativistic result of scalar particle and electron in Coulomb field. Because the leading order terms of nonrelativistic Hamiltonian of scalar particle and electron are the same. The eigenvalues, eigenstates and Green function of nonrelativistic hydrogen Swainson and Drake (1991a, b, c) are used to derive the relativistic correction.
The eigenfunction of hydrogen atom is
(79) |
where is radial part and is spherical harmonics function. The radial part of the nonrelativistic wave function can be written as
(80) |
is the generalized Laguerre function and is the normalization factor.
In coordinate representation, the operator is reduced Green function. It can be expressed as
(81) |
where the radial function can be expressed as
(82) |
and
(83) | ||||
Although reduced Green function is a summation of infinite terms. The term
(84) |
in second perturbation of relativistic energy ( order) can be calculated by the following two method. (1)Analytical method: The first ten terms are calculated accurately. Then the general term formulas are conjectured. The general term formulas are tested by comparing with exact results of first hundred terms, and the summation can be obtained accurately. (2)Approximate method: The first terms are calculated accurately. For , , the coefficient and are extracted from the first terms. Then the approximated result is
(85) |
The accuracy could be improved by increasing the . In the following calculation, is chosen. The third perturbation term like can be calculated by the similar methods. Almost all the corrections can be obtained by two method, except order relativistic correction of the s state of election in Coulomb field. It will be calculated by applying the first method.
The relativistic energy of scalar particle in Coulomb field is
(86) | ||||
where the are the principal and orbital angular momentum quantum number. The ground state energy . The first two terms in the Taylor expansion are mass and nonrelativistic energy. Others are high-order relativistic corrections.
Here, we will test the relativistic corrections Eq.(51)(52)(53). The leading order of relativistic corrections Eq.(51) can be derived analytically,
(87) |
It is coincided with the third terms of the Taylor expansion of the relativistic energy . The relativistic corrections (52)(53) are calculated by the methods mentioned before. The results are given in the Table I-III. is obtained by applying the approximate method with . Comparing with the exact vale, they have at least eight significant figures. The and of state obtained by applying the analytical method are coincided with the exact value.
10 | -1.3124906365 |
---|---|
20 | -1.3124990733 |
30 | -1.3124997838 |
40 | -1.3124999255 |
50 | -1.3124999678 |
60 | -1.3124999839 |
70 | -1.3124999911 |
80 | -1.3124999947 |
90 | -1.3124999966 |
100 | -1.3124999978 |
-1.3124999993(15) | |
Exact | -1.3125 |
States | Approximate | Exact |
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-1.312499999(2) | -1.3125 | |
-0.17675781250(2) | -0.1767578125 | |
-0.0043041085(8) | -0.0043041087… | |
-0.049811385(1) | -0.049811385… | |
-0.0018004112(8) | -0.0018004115… | |
-0.000231138548(7) | -0.000231138545… |
Exact | |
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The relativistic energy of hydrogen is
(88) | ||||
where . If , and if , . are principal, total angular momentum and orbital angular momentum quantum number. In the second line, the first two terms in the Taylor expansion are mass and nonrelativistic energy. The third term is leading order relativistic corrections. The higher-order relativistic corrections can be obtained from Taylor expansion. The energy of ground state is .
In Table.IV-V, approximate results of relativistic correction Eq.(64)(67) are listed. At order, the approximate results have at least eight significant figures. At order, there is artificial divergence appear in relativistic correction of the state. The approximate method is invalid. However, all the expectation values of the operators of relativistic corrections are finite for state. Approximate results have at least five significant figures for .
The relativistic correction Eq.(61)(64)(67) of ground state of hydrogen are calculated by applying analytical method. The result are listed in Table.VI. Some expectation values are divergent. The divergent parts are proportional to a Harmonic series. However, the divergent part in can’t be separate from the finite part directly. The key point is applying the equation . Then a divergent Harmonic series appears. All the divergent Harmonic series cancelled in the total contributions . The relativistic corrections up order are coincided with the exact value.
States | Approximate | Exact |
---|---|---|
-0.0624999998(4) | -0.0625 | |
-0.020507812501(4) | -0.0205078125 | |
-0.0009765623(5) | -0.0009765625… | |
-0.0066015090(3) | -0.0066015089… | |
-0.0006215704(4) | -0.0006215706… | |
-0.000085733884(5) | -0.000085733882… |
States | Approximate | Exact |
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-0.00015256(6) | -0.00015258… | |
-0.00010029(6) | -0.00010032… | |
-0.0000059538(4) | -0.0000059537… |
V Conclusion
In this work, the nonrelativisitc Hamiltonians of spin-0, 1/2, 1 particles in the electromagnetic field are derived by applying DKH-FW method. The result of spin-1/2 is coincided with the previous result obtained by using scattering matching approach Zhou et al. (2019). Comparing with the scattering matching of NRQED, the even one-photon potential of FW Hamiltonian can be obtained by expanding the photon-fermion scattering amplitude. The even two-photon potential of FW Hamiltonian originated in the process of quantum electrodynamic: the positive-energy state can transit to negative-energy intermediate state and transits back to positive-energy state though emit/absorb two photons. It indicates that the two approaches up to order are equivalent at the tree-level, which can satisfy nowadays accuracy requirement. Although the result of spin-0 and spin-1 obtained by scattering matching approach is absent. It is easy to find that is the product of the odd one-photon terms of DKH Hamiltonian and the Green function of negative-energy state. Their two-photon terms may be interpreted as the contribution of the negative energy state. Their equivalence should be proved in the further works.
Parts of high-order corrections to the energy of Coulombic systems can be derived by using these FW Hamiltonians. One is the self-energy correction of low-energy virtual photons. Another is the photon-exchange interactions between electrons or electron and nucleus. The Coulomb-photon-exchange interactions are studied in the work. And the nonrelativistic Coulomb Hamiltonians are obtained. Then, the equivalent formulas of energy corrections are derived. The singularities of Hamiltonian are cancelled. The numerical results of scalar and electron up to are coincided with the relativistic formula. The regularized Coulomb Hamiltonian can be using to calculate relativistic corrections of the Hydrogen molecular ion. Further more, it indicates the singularities in the tree, single loop and multi-loop Feynman diagram contribution or gauge invariant Feynman diagram may be canceled parts by parts. It is essential to simplify obtaining or verifying the higher-order corrections.
Appendix A Some proof of equations
By using and , can be transformed to
(89) | ||||
and
(90) | ||||
Eliminating the terms on the right of these two equations. It is equal to
(91) |
The equations used in this work is
(92) |
(93) |
and
(94) |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.12074295 and 12104420). X.-S. Mei was also supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. XDB21020200).
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