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An illustration of the light-front coupled-cluster method in quantum electrodynamics

Journal Article · · AIP Conference Proceedings
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4763516· OSTI ID:22075666
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  1. Department of Physics, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 55812 (United States)
A field-theoretic formulation of the exponential-operator technique is applied to a nonperturbative Hamiltonian eigenvalue problem in electrodynamics, quantized in light-front coordinates. Specifically, we consider the dressed-electron state, without positron contributions but with an unlimited number of photons, and compute its anomalous magnetic moment. A simple perturbative solution immediately yields the Schwinger result of {alpha}/2{pi}. The nonperturbative solution, which requires numerical techniques, sums a subset of corrections to all orders in {alpha} and incorporates additional physics.
OSTI ID:
22075666
Journal Information:
AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1492; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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