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Spin relaxation and electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations

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Lettere al Nuovo Cimento (1971-1985)

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In the spirit of the Welton calculation of the Lamb shift, it is shown that one can reasonably expect an electron spin relaxation on a time scale of the order of 10−16 seconds. The calculations are made in the context of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics where radiation damping and the zero-point magnetic vacuum field are added to the formal Larmor equation.

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  1. Departamento de Física, Universidad de los Andes Apartado Aéreo, D.E. 1, 4976, Bogotá, Colombia

    S. M. Moore

  2. Department of Physios and Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, 01003, Amherst, Mass., USA

    S. M. Moore

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Moore, S.M. Spin relaxation and electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations. Lett. Nuovo Cimento 40, 385–389 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02739650

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