https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3906-2
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Traces of Lorentz symmetry breaking in a hydrogen atom at ground state
1
Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, Rua Santa Adélia, 166, Santo André, SP, 09210-170, Brazil
2
IFQ-Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Av. BPS 1303, Pinheirinho, Caixa Postal 50, Itajubá, MG, 37500-903, Brazil
* e-mail: fbarone@unifei.edu.br
Received:
28
September
2015
Accepted:
17
January
2016
Published online:
6
February
2016
Some traces of a specific Lorentz symmetry breaking scenario in the ground state of the hydrogen atom are investigated. We use standard Rayleigh–Schrödinger perturbation theory in order to obtain the corrections to the ground state energy and the wave function. It is shown that an induced four-pole moment arises, due to the Lorentz symmetry breaking. The model considered is the one studied in Borges et al. (Eur Phys J C 74:2937, 2014), where the Lorentz symmetry is broken in the electromagnetic sector.
© The Author(s), 2016
