Eur. Phys. J. C (2014) 74: 2923
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2923-2

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

One-electron atoms in Schwarzschild universe: bare and electromagnetically dressed cases

Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Shahrekord University, P. O. Box 115, Shahrekord, Iran

^* e-mail: jafari-ab@sci.sku.ac.ir

Received: 13 February 2014
Accepted: 27 May 2014
Published online: 24 June 2014

Abstract

The quantum mechanics of one-electron atoms in the presence of external electromagnetic fields is considered within Weber’s framework. The results by the earlier studies are extended in the sense that for given source and field configurations the changes of the electromagnetic potentials due to the curved background are included. The formulation is specialized to the case with Schwarzschild background. The first corrections to the energy levels for bare atom and Zeeman/Stark effects are calculated, exhibiting possible changes in meaningful orders.