Tadahiro Miyao, Herbert Spohn
We study the ground state energy for a system of two hydrogen atoms coupled to the quantized Maxwell field in the limit $\alpha \to 0$ together with the relative distance between the atoms increasing as $\alpha^{-\gamma} R$, $\gamma > 0$. In particular we determine explicitly the crossover function from the $R^{-6}$ van der Waals potential to the $R^{-7}$ retarded van der Waals potential, which takes place at scale $\alpha^{-2} R$.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1091
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