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On the Interaction of Radiation and Two Electrons
Phys. Rev. 66, 69 – Published 1 August, 1944
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.66.69
Abstract
The quantum theory of radiation describes the effect of retardation in the interaction of two electrons by the mutual emission and absorption of light quanta. A study has been made of a process involving the interaction of two electrons and any number of quanta. It was noted that the number of terms involving virtual quanta needed to describe the retardation in the usual first-order approximation of perturbation theory depends on the number of real quanta involved in the process under consideration. It was shown that, nevertheless, the resulting expression obtained by summing over all the intermediate states involving virtual quanta is of the same form for any process. Møller's formulas for the retarded interaction of two electrons with no light quanta and with one light quantum emitted are special cases of our equation.
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