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Main Authors: Barnett, Stephen M., Cresser, James D., Croke, Sarah
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12959
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  • We investigate the effects of the electromagnetic vacuum field on a harmonically bound electron. We show that in the electric-dipole approximation the model atom couples only to an effective one-dimensional electric field. In a simplified form, in which the problem is reduced to a single spatial dimension, we determine, analytically, the form of the ground state and discuss the significance of this.