# Dirac particle confined to a ring

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Is it possible to have a relativistic fermion of charge -q, confined to a ring around a relatively heavy particle of charge +q, such that the
fermion forms standing waves with n, nodes along the ring. If
possible, would the system be stable and where can I find the Dirpossible, would the system be stable and where can I find the Dirac
solution for that system.

To some extent, yes, it is possible: you take a heavy nucleus with $+q$ and attach one electron to it. It will be an ion with the total charge $+q-1$ and with Hydrogen-like orbital motions, except for being more relativistic and with the ground state still spherically symmetric. All the other configurations ("ring-like") are quasi-stable due to possibility to emit photons with getting into the "atomic" ground state. Read something about Hydrogen-like ions.
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