Gravitational perturbation of the hydrogen spectrum

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Dec 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982phdt........12p&link_type=abstract

Ph.D. Thesis Wisconsin Univ., Milwaukee.

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Curvature, Gravitation Theory, Gravitational Fields, Hydrogen Atoms, Perturbation, Binary Stars, Energy Levels, Neutron Stars, Pulsars, Riemann Waves

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The most viable theories of gravitation are metric theories. In these theories the gravitation is manifested as a curvature of spacetime and it is characterized by the Riemann tensor. It is of great interest to measure, or to put an upper bound on, the Riemann tensor. The energy shifts caused by the gravitational interaction on the Hydrogen spectrum provide a way of carrying out such measurements. The perturbation of the energy levels of a freely falling one-electron atom in an arbitrary curved spacetime are considered. Another investigation reported in this thesis is the use of Hydrogen atoms as remote quantum detectors of gravitational waves. Finally, the energy shifts of an accelerated atom in flat spacetime are considered. The Hamiltonian and the energy shifts are calculated to first order in the acceleration. The possibility of parity violating effects is also studied.

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