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A systematic investigation, including the effect of retardation, is given for the interaction of two one-dimensional harmonic oscillators. The comment of Reinecke and Ruder [1], where a repulsive character for the force over a certain region of separation has been described, is shown to arise because of permanent moments implicit in the model. The calculation of the potential energy is made using quantum electrodynamics with all the intersystem interaction being mediated by photons: the method allows the calculation of the next term in inverse powers ofR.
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Power, E.A. On the interaction between charged linear harmonic oscillators. Z Physik A 284, 287–289 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01406800
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