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The correction to the Coulomb repulsion between two electrons due to the exchange of a transverse photon, referred to as the Breit interaction, as well as the main quantum electrodynamics contributions to the atomic energies (self-energy and vacuum polarization), are calculated using the recently formulated relativistic screened hydrogenic model. Comparison with the results of multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock calculations and experimental X-ray energies is made.
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The authors acknowledge the support of Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional del Centro, and the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina. We are also very grateful for the assistance Mariana Di Rocco has offered us in the translation of the paper into English.
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Di Rocco, H.O., Lanzini, F. Breit and Quantum Electrodynamics Energy Contributions in Multielectron Atoms from the Relativistic Screened Hydrogenic Model. Braz J Phys 46, 175–183 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13538-015-0397-9
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