Approximate Born-Infeld effects on the relativistic hydrogen spectrum

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2011.02.012zbMATH Open1242.81068arXiv1102.2277OpenAlexW2004520792MaRDI QIDQ432913FDOQ432913

J. Franklin, T. Garon

Publication date: 4 July 2012

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Born-Infeld form of the hydrogen atom has a spectrum that can be used to determine the physical viability of the theory, and place an experimentally relevant bound on the single parameter found in it. We compute this spectrum using the relativistic Dirac equation, and a form of the Born-Infeld potential that approximates the self-field corrections of the electron. Using these together, we can establish that if the Born-Infeld nonlinear electrodynamics is to be physically relevant, it must contain a fundamental constant that is well below the original value proposed by Born. This work extends the original Schrodinger spectrum from Carley and Kiessling (2006) [1] for the self-field correction, and shows that using the Dirac equation introduces minor corrections - but also gives access to a range for the fundamental constant that is below that attainable from non-relativistic considerations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2277

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Atomic physics (81V45)

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• Cosmic String influence on a 2D hydrogen atom and its relationship with the Rytova-Keldysh logarithmic approximation in semiconductors
• Photonic processes in Born–Infeld theory

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