Infrared-finite algorithms in QED II. The expansion of the groundstate of an atom interacting with the quantized radiation field

Abstract In this paper, we present an explicit and constructive algorithm enabling us to calculate the groundstate and the groundstate energy of a non-relativistic atom minimally coupled to the quantized radiation field up to an error of arbitrary finite order in the fine structure constant. Because of infrared divergences, which invalidate a straightforward Taylor expansion, an iterative construction is employed to remove the infrared cut-off in photon momentum space and to produce a convergent algorithm.