Free Energy of Coupled Oscillators: Lamb Shifts and van der Waals Interactions |
| P.W. Milonni
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA |
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| The Helmholtz free energy of oscillators in thermal equilibrium with electromagnetic radiation is obtained from the Pauli-Hellmann-Feynman theorem and applied to some aspects of Lamb shifts and van der Waals interactions. |
DOI:10.12693/APhysPolA.143.78 topics: Lamb shift, van der Waals interactions, Pauli-Hellmann-Feynman theorem |