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Relativistic two-dimensional hydrogen-like atom in a weak magnetic field

Quantum Physics 2019-01-29 v2 Atomic Physics

Abstract

A two-dimensional (2D) hydrogen-like atom with a relativistic Dirac electron, placed in a weak, static, uniform magnetic field perpendicular to the atomic plane, is considered. Closed forms of the first- and second-order Zeeman corrections to energy levels are calculated analytically, within the framework of the Rayleigh-Schr\"odinger perturbation theory, for an arbitrary electronic bound state. The second-order calculations are carried out with the use of the Sturmian expansion of the two-dimensional generalized radial Dirac-Coulomb Green function derived in the paper. It is found that, in contrast to the case of the three-dimensional atom [P. Stefa\'nska, Phys. Rev. A 92 (2015) 032504], in two spatial dimensions atomic magnetizabilities (magnetic susceptibilities) are expressible in terms of elementary algebraic functions of a nuclear charge and electron quantum numbers. The problem considered here is related to the Coulomb impurity problem for graphene in a weak magnetic field.

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@article{arxiv.1807.07012,
  title  = {Relativistic two-dimensional hydrogen-like atom in a weak magnetic field},
  author = {Radosław Szmytkowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.07012},
  year   = {2019}
}

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24 pages, 4 tables

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