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Hydrogen atom in the gravitational fields of topological defects

arXiv:gr-qc/0209030 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.66.105011

Abstract

We consider a hydrogen atom in the background spacetimes generated by an infinitely thin cosmic string and by a point-like global monopole. In both cases, we find the solutions of the corresponding Dirac equations and we determine the energy levels of the atom. We investigate how the geometric and topological features of these spacetimes leads to shifts in the energy levels as compared with the flat Minkowski spacetime.

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