The atom as a probe of curved space-time

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Apr 1981

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General Relativity and Gravitation, Volume 13, Issue 4, pp.307-311

Physics

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A one-electron atom is considered in a general curved space-time. The Hamiltonian of the Dirac equation is written in Fermi normal coordinates, including all interaction terms of first order in the Riemann tensor of the space-time. Expressions are obtained for the shifts in various atomic energy levels caused by the curvature. There is a possibility that these shifts would be observable in the spectrum of hydrogen falling into small black holes (radius about 10-3 cm) left over from the early universe.

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