Bart Van Tiggelen, Sebastien Kawka, Geert L. J. A. Rikken
We develop a QED approach to find the contribution of the quantum vacuum to
the electromagnetic Abraham force. Semi-classical theories predict diverging
contributions from the quantum vacuum. We show that the divergencies disappear
by Kramers-Bethe mass-renormalization. The finite remainder is compared to the
relativistic corrections to the Abraham force. This work generalizes an earlier
paper [1], dedicated to the harmonic oscillator, to the hydrogen atom and
corrects two subtle errors.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5278
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