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Hydrogen Atom and Time Variation of Fine-Structure Constant

General Physics 2009-11-21 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

In this paper, we have solved the de Sitter special relativistic (SRcR\mathcal{SR}_{cR}-) Dirac equation of hydrogen in the earth-QSO(quasar) framework reference by means of the adiabatic approach. The aspects of geometry effects of de Sitter space-time described by Beltrami metric are explored and taken into account. It is found that the SRcR\mathcal{SR}_{cR}-Dirac equation of hydrogen is a time dependent quantum Hamiltonian system. We provide an explicit calculation to justify the adiabatic approach in dealing with this time-dependent system. Since the radius of de Sitter sphere RR is cosmologically large, the evolution of the system is very slow so that the adiabatic approximation legitimately works with high accuracy. We conclude that the electromagnetic fine-structure constant, the electron mass and the Planck constant are time variations. This prediction of fine-structure constant is consistent with the presently available observation data. For confirming it further, experiments/observations are required.

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@article{arxiv.0909.4829,
  title  = {Hydrogen Atom and Time Variation of Fine-Structure Constant},
  author = {Mu-Lin Yan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.4829},
  year   = {2009}
}

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29 pages, 2 figure

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