Additions and corrections


We, the named authors, hereby wholly retract this Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics correction. The original correction itself contained more information than is needed to correct the parent paper, but was still incomplete in the sense of full quantum electrodynamics.

A revised correction is provided here:

Signed: Wenjian Liu, Beijing, China, September 2012.

Retraction endorsed by Philip Earis, Managing Editor, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Retraction published 16th November 2012.



Perspectives of relativistic quantum chemistry: the negative energy cat smiles

Wenjian Liu

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2012, 14, 35–48 (DOI: 10.1039/c1cp21718f). Amendment published 3rd May 2012.


To reveal the contribution of negative energy states to correlation, a complete derivation of the first and second order (nonradiative) QED energies for instantaneously interacting electrons is presented based on the simple rules for algebraically evaluating the Feynman diagrams. The previous equations that hold only for the special case of two electrons are hence corrected. For further details please see the following link:



The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.


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