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Gravitational Tensor-Monopole Moment of Hydrogen Atom To Order ${\cal O}(\alpha)$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-03-10 v2 Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We calculate the gravitational tensor-monopole moment of the momentum-current density TijT^{ij} in the ground state of the hydrogen atom to order O(α){\cal O}(\alpha) in quantum electrodynamics (QED). The result is \begin{align} \tau_H/\tau_0 - 1 = \frac{4\alpha}{3\pi}\left(\ln\alpha^2-0.028\right) \nonumber \end{align} where τ0=2/4me\tau_0= \hbar^2/4m_e is the leading-order moment. The physics of the next-to-leading-order correction is similar to that of the famous Lamb shift for energy levels.

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@article{arxiv.2208.05029,
  title  = {Gravitational Tensor-Monopole Moment of Hydrogen Atom To Order ${\cal O}(\alpha)$},
  author = {Xiangdong Ji and Yizhuang Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.05029},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

22 pages, 9 figures. Typos corrected from v1