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Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3108 - 3111 (1999)

Radiation Corrections Increase Tunneling Probability

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V. V. Flambaum1 and V. G. Zelevinsky2 *
1School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
2Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824

Received 29 December 1998

We calculate the QED effect of the renormalization of the bare potential for the tunneling of a charged particle due to the interaction with its own radiation field (an analog of the Lamb shift for tunneling). It is demonstrated that radiative corrections increase the tunneling probability.


©1999 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3108
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3108
PACS: 03.65.Sq, 12.20.-m, 24.90.+d

* Email address: zelevinsky@nscl.msu.edu

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