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The Brillouin-Wigner expansion in a relativistic two-body formalism

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The Brillouin-Wigner perturbation theory is used to precisely calculate the energy levels of hydrogen-like systems.

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Baklanov, E.V. The Brillouin-Wigner expansion in a relativistic two-body formalism. Laser Phys. 18, 22–26 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054660X08010052

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