Vacuum polarization in molecules II: higher order corrections

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Flynn, D. J., Grant, I. P., Quiney, H. M.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866911979978883072
author Flynn, D. J.
Grant, I. P.
Quiney, H. M.
author_facet Flynn, D. J.
Grant, I. P.
Quiney, H. M.
contents We outline a general formalism for treating vacuum polarization phenomena within an effective field expansion. The coupling between source charges and virtual fields is examined from the perspectives of electrostatic potentials, induced charge densities and form factors in momentum space. A strategy for the efficient calculation of vacuum polarization potentials is outlined, implemented, and applied towards the construction of fitting potentials that are suitable for molecular electronic structure calculations, which enclose no overall charge by construction. The order $α(Z α)$, $α(Z α)^{3}$ and $α^{2}(Zα)$ effects of a Gaussian nuclear charge on the electron-positron field are applied variationally towards the E119F molecule, as well as the order $α(Z α)$ effects arising from the virtual muon and charged pion fields.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2405_11261
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Vacuum polarization in molecules II: higher order corrections
Flynn, D. J.
Grant, I. P.
Quiney, H. M.
Atomic Physics
Quantum Physics
We outline a general formalism for treating vacuum polarization phenomena within an effective field expansion. The coupling between source charges and virtual fields is examined from the perspectives of electrostatic potentials, induced charge densities and form factors in momentum space. A strategy for the efficient calculation of vacuum polarization potentials is outlined, implemented, and applied towards the construction of fitting potentials that are suitable for molecular electronic structure calculations, which enclose no overall charge by construction. The order $α(Z α)$, $α(Z α)^{3}$ and $α^{2}(Zα)$ effects of a Gaussian nuclear charge on the electron-positron field are applied variationally towards the E119F molecule, as well as the order $α(Z α)$ effects arising from the virtual muon and charged pion fields.
title Vacuum polarization in molecules II: higher order corrections
topic Atomic Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.11261