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Exact Solution of the Klein-Gordon Equation for the Hydrogen Atom Including Electron Spin

Quantum Physics 2010-06-22 v1

Abstract

The term describing the coupling between total angular momentum and energy-momentum in the hydrogen atom is isolated from the radial Dirac equation and used to replace the corresponding orbital angular momentum coupling term in the radial K-G equation. The resulting spin-corrected K-G equation is a second order differential equation that contains no matrices. It is solved here to generate the same energy eigenvalues for the hydrogen atom as the Dirac equation.

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@article{arxiv.1006.3971,
  title  = {Exact Solution of the Klein-Gordon Equation for the Hydrogen Atom Including Electron Spin},
  author = {Robert J. Ducharme},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.3971},
  year   = {2010}
}

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6 pages