Abstract
By applying a self-consistent projection-operator method, developed recently by the author, a complete treatment of the sixty- year-old problem of spontaneously decaying atomic state is achieved. In a new physical interaction picture (in which, without using the mass-renormalization concept, the unobservable interaction of the free electron with the vacuum radiation field is eliminated), by removing the shortcomings of the Weisskopf-Wigner method and taking into account virtual transition effects, explicit finite analytic results for the non-markovian time evolution in the case of Lyman-α spontaneous emission are obtained.
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