CHARGE SCREENING IN SUPERCRITICAL COULOMB FIELDS AND A LOWER-BOUND FOR ELECTRON-ENERGY LEVELS

Authors
DIETZ K PORATH R ROMER H
Citation
K. Dietz et al., CHARGE SCREENING IN SUPERCRITICAL COULOMB FIELDS AND A LOWER-BOUND FOR ELECTRON-ENERGY LEVELS, Nuclear physics. A, 560(4), 1993, pp. 973-984
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear
Journal title
Nuclear physics. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
03759474
Volume
560
Issue
4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
973 - 984
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9474(1993)560:4<973:CSISCF>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
We show that discontinuities in the vacuum polarisation give rise to c harge screening effects which are large and result in a lower bound DE LTA with - m < DELTA < m for the energy levels of an electron bound in a supercritical field.