Fine structure (Dirac prediction)

Layer 1 — Physicsin the atomic-physics subtree

Dirac's 1928 derivation of the hydrogen fine-structure splitting from the relativistic Dirac equation: energy levels depend on principal n and total angular momentum j through E_{n,j} = m c^2 [1 + (alpha / (n - j - 1/2 + sqrt((j+1/2)^2 -…

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