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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 15: Quantengravitation und Quantenkosmologie II

GR 15.5: Talk

Thursday, March 1, 2012, 18:05–18:25, ZHG 002

Fluctuations of spacetime and hyperfine structure of the hydrogen atom — •Ertan Göklü¹, Juan Israel Rivas², and Abel Camacho² — ¹ZARM-Universität Bremen, Am Fallturm, 28359 Bremen — ²Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana–Iztapalapa, Apartado Postal 55–534, C.P. 09340, México, D.F., México

We consider the consequences of the presence of metric fluctuations upon the properties of a hydrogen atom. Particularly, we introduce these metric fluctuations in the corresponding effective Schrödinger equation and deduce the modifications that they entail upon the hyperfine structure related to a hydrogen atom. We will find the change that these effects imply for the ground state energy of the system and obtain a bound for its size comparing our theoretical predictions against the experimental uncertainty reported in the literature.