- 1Department of Physics, College of Science, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- 2Theoretical Physics Group, Department of Physics, University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Nigeria
- 3Department of Physics, University of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
- 4Department of Physics, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
In this paper, we examine the relativistic quantum behaviour of spinless particles interacting through the Klein-Gordon (KG) oscillator and screened Kratzer potentials and influenced by external magnetic field, using the extended Nikiforov-Uvarov method. A detailed analysis of how quantum numbers and cosmic string parameters affect the energy spectra of the KG oscillator are provided. The results obtained reveal that energy spectra are influenced by the quantum numbers and the cosmic string parameters thereby causing a shift, depending on the quantum magnetic flux, dislocation parameter, and other potential parameters considered. Our results agree with results in literature and the study proves to be very useful in the understanding of the behavior of particles in a cosmic space-time with space-like dislocation.
1 Introduction
The recent applications of the Klein-Gordon oscillator (KGO) [1–3] stem from Moshinsky and Szczepanik’s [4] conceptualization of the relativistic quantum Dirac oscillator. Unlike the Dirac oscillator that describes spin half particles, Bruce and Minning [5] conceived their idea for the spinless relativistic model which they referred to as KGO. Many researchers and authors in recent times have devoted their interest in finding the analytical solutions to KGO [6, 7]. Bakke and Furtado [8] considered the influence of a Coulomb-type potential on the KGO by introducing the scalar potential as modification in the mass term of the KGO. In their studies, relativistic bound state solutions to both attractive and repulsive Coulomb-type potentials were obtained. Also, the dependence of angular frequency of the KGO on the quantum states of the system, due to the quantum effect were investigated. Vitoria et al. [9] investigated the quantum dynamics of an electrically charged particle with KGO and Coulomb potential. Here, only specific values of the angular frequency of the KGO were permitted to obtain bound state solutions of the system. Also, the angular frequency and the energy level associated with the ground state of the relativistic system were obtained, in addition to the behaviour of the position-dependent mass particle subject to the KGO and Coulomb potential. The influence of topological defect on the interaction of a scalar field with combined Coulomb-type potential and gauge potential in a space-time uniform magnetic field, with a screw dislocation has been investigated [10]. Here, analytical solutions to the KGO in the space-time with a screw dislocation were studied and analogues effects of the AB effect for bound states of the combined systems obtained.
Interestingly, the limiting cases of the KGO were reduced to the well-known non-relativistic limit of the Schrodinger oscillator. Much research work on KGO with confining harmonic oscillator has been reported. Rao and Kagali [11] described a method of inputting the harmonic oscillator potential into the Klein–Gordon equation, leading to genuine bound states. In their work, the eigenfunctions and eigen energies of the system were obtained explicitly, though corrected Boumali et al. [12], using the annihilation and creation operators. Studies on relativistic and position-dependent spin-zero particles subjected to the KGO and confining potentials have been presented [13, 14].
The KGO finds many applications in physics such as quark-antiquark interaction [15], the Casimir effect [16], scalar bosons [17] and others [18–24]. The concept of including the vector potential in the KG equation is via coupling of the momentum operator in the form:
In other developments, the linear central potential with the Lorentz symmetry, governed by a tensor field background on a scalar field with KGO was investigated [30]. The behaviour of the relativistic quantum oscillator under the influence of a Coulomb-type scalar potential in this background was also analyzed. The influence of the tensor field background which violates Lorentz symmetry in the relativistic energy levels was discussed extensively. The rotating effects on a charged scalar field immersed in space-time with a magnetic screw dislocation was investigated [31], by considering the Coulomb-type potential and the KGO. The author obtained the bound state solutions of the systems. These solutions were affected by both the space-time topology and Sagnac-type effect, which were modified by magnetic screw dislocation. da Silva et al. [32] investigated the non-relativistic quantum effects of the topology of the spacetime with the distortion of a vertical line into a vertical spiral on the harmonic oscillator, using the topological defect background of Schrödinger equation (SE). The authors established that the topology of space-time modifies the energy spectrum of the harmonic oscillator, in addition to the existence of the AB-type effect for the energy bound states. Braganca et al. [33] considered the influence of the global monopole Space-time on the Dirac and Klein–Gordon relativistic quantum Oscillator. The analytical energy profile results obtained were seen to be characterized by the curvature of space-time. Also, a hard-wall potential was employed to determine the energy spectrum for relativistic quantum oscillators in this background. Ahmed [34] investigated the interactions of a scalar particle with electromagnetic potential in the background space-time generated by a cosmic string with a space-like dislocation. The KGO was solved in the presence of external fields with an internal magnetic flux field and AB effect. The author also considered Cornell-type scalar potential within this context and analyzed its effects on the relativistic energy eigenvalue and eigenfunction obtained. Recently, Vitoria [34] analyzed a scalar particle in space-time with torsion. Here, the confinement of a scalar particle in a cylindrical shell and that of the KGO were investigated. The relativistic energy profile in the presence of torsion in a spiral-like dislocation space-time were analyzed for the systems considered. In addition, the relativistic quantum dynamics of the oscillator field with generalized KGO, confined in an Ellis-Bronnikov-type wormhole space-time with a topological defect was investigated [35]. By employing the Coulomb and Cornell-type potential functions, the analytical solutions of the systems and the influence of the topological defect of the geometry and the wormhole throat radius were studied. The eigenvalue solution of the oscillator field was seen to exert significant modifications to the entire results, underscoring the impact of the topological defect.
The primary objective of this paper is to determine the energy spectra of relativistic spinless particles interacting with a screened Kratzer potential under the influence of a KGO. Additionally, we seek to explore the impact of quantum numbers (QNs) and the angular parameter of cosmic string space-time on the KGO’s energy spectra. This work unifies the analytical treatment of a relativistic quantum system influenced by both topological space-time defects and a composite potential field as its major strength. It also combines the KGO with a screened Kratzer potential under the effects of cosmic string space-time, Aharonov-Bohm (AB) field, and spatial dislocation. This approach is viewed as a significant addition to theoretical Physics, where relativistic quantum mechanics and topological field theory are bridged.
The structure of this work is organized as follows: Section 2 presents the solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation in both cosmic and space-time dislocation contexts. Section 3 contains the results and discussion, and Section 4 offers a brief conclusion.
2 The KGO in AB field and space-time dislocation
The KG equation describing the dynamics of spin-zero relativistic particles of mass
where
where
By using Equations 2, 3 with the definition of
Here, we write the KG momentum operator coupling the oscillator as
One of the non-zero components of the four-vector field
where
where
where,
where
Here
where
The presence of the term
It is well-known that Equation 13 is applicable when the parameter
where,
We can see that Equation 14 is the hypergeometric-type equation that can be solved analytically using the extended Nikiforov-Uvarov (ENU) method [38–40]. Equation 14 has a structure like that of the ENU method [38–40] from which the following polynomials are obtained:
The polynomial
The polynomial
After a little algebra from Equations 17, 18, we obtain the following coefficients
By using Equation 19 in Equation 18, the associated polynomial for
is obtained as follows:
The other polynomials associated with ENU are defined as follows.
with
By setting the coefficients of the linear and constant terms equal in Equation 25, we get
By setting
where
3 Results and discussion
Here we show how the QNs and angular parameter affect the energy spectra of the KGO interacting with the screened Kratzer potential subjected to Yukawa-like potential terms for different potential parameters, AB field, angular frequency, mass of the particle, screening parameter, dislocation parameter, and wave number as shown in Figures 1–10. In Figure 1, we plotted the energy spectrum of KGO as a function of the cosmic string parameter

Figure 2. Energy vs. screening parameter,

Figure 3. Energy vs. cyclotron frequency,

Figure 4. Energy vs. magnetic flux,

Figure 5. Energy vs. spatial dislocation parameter,

Figure 6. Energy vs. wave number, k for various (A) quantum states and (B) cosmic string parameter,

Figure 7. Energy vs. mass of the particle, m for various (A) quantum states and (B) cosmic string parameter,

Figure 8. Energy vs. potential parameter, V0 for various (A) quantum states and (B) cosmic string parameter,

Figure 9. Energy vs. potential parameter, V1 for various (A) quantum states and (B) cosmic string parameter,

Figure 10. Energy vs. (A) principal quantum number, n and (B) angular momentum quantum number, l, for various cosmic string parameter,
Figure 2 shows a plot of how the screening parameter
The effect of the cyclotron frequency on the energy spectra of the KGO for various values of the quantum states and the cosmic string parameter are given in Figure 3. The energy of the KGO increases with increase in cyclotron frequency and becomes more bounded as the cyclotron frequency is enhanced more, for different quantum states (left panel of Figure 3). At specific cyclotron frequency, the energy of the KGO increases with a decrease in quantum states. On the other hand, the energy of KGO also increases as the cyclotron frequency is increased for various value of the cosmic string parameter (Right panel of Figure 3). It is observed here that the energy spectrum diverges at higher cyclotron frequency, for various cosmic string parameters considered. This indicates that more energies can be resonantly absorbed by the particles of the KGO and SKP at lower quantum states and higher cosmic string space-time.
The influence of the QNs and cosmic string parameters on the energy spectra of KGO as a function of quantum magnetic flux are shown in Figure 4. Here, the energy spectra of KGO increases as the quantum magnetic flux is enhanced for different states of QNs and cosmic string parameters. Also, the increase in energy spectra corresponds to increase in the strength of the magnetic field and quantum states. In addition, the energy spectra increase monotonously, as the cosmic string parameters decrease, hence causing a tangible gap corresponding to each cosmic string space-time.
The behaviour of the QNs and cosmic string parameters on the energy spectra of KGO as a function of the dislocation parameter are displayed in Figure 5. The energy of the KGO first decreases to a minimum dislocation parameter value and increases as the dislocation parameter is enhanced. This phenomenon corresponds to the decrease in the values of the QN and cosmic string parameter considered. It can be deduced here that the particle electrons in the KGO are trapped within a lower dislocation value
The variation of the energy of the KGO with changes in the wave number is displayed in Figure 6. The energy of the KGO decreases at the first instance and later increases as the wave number is further enhanced for different quantum states and cosmic string parameters. This indicates that the energy spectra of KGO exhibits shorter wavelengths at higher wave numbers and vice versa, for the quantum states and cosmic string parameters considered.
Figure 7 shows the plot of the energy of the KGO with the mass of the particles. Here, the energy of KGO is bounded (negative energy) at the lower values of the mass of the particles. In addition, the energy of the KGO increases to positive energy as the mass of the particles is increased for different values of QNs and cosmic string parameter. Hence, much energy is needed to distribute heavier particles within the KGO, at different quantum states and cosmic string space-times.
In Figure 8, we plotted the energy of the KGO as a function of the potential parameter
Figure 10 illustrates how the energy spectra of the KGO changes with the quantum states, for various values of cosmic string parameter. The variation of energy of the KGO versus the principal QN (n) shows that the energy of KGO decreases (negative energy) as
4 Conclusion
In this paper, we constructed compact expressions for the energy spectra and wave functions of the KG equation with a screened Kratzer potential in cosmic space-time and space-time dislocation using the extended Nikiforov-Uvarov method. We thoroughly examined the impact of different quantum states and cosmic string parameters on the energy spectra of the KGO. The variation of the energy spectrum of the KGO versus quantum magnetic flux, dislocation parameter, and potential parameters were also illustrated. A shift in energy levels was observed for lower values of cosmic string parameters. These energy shifts were also seen at higher values of screening parameter, corresponding to the quantum states and cosmic string parameters considered. It was also observed that more energies can be resonantly absorbed by the particles of the KGO and SKP at lower quantum states and higher cosmic string space-time.
Another unique result obtained was the trapping of the particle electrons in the KGO within lower dislocation values, whereby reducing the energy spectra. The trapped electrons were released at higher values of the dislocation parameter, thereby increasing the energy spectra for the quantum states and cosmic string parameters considered.
It can be concluded that these physical parameters affect the relativistic dynamic of the particles and will invariably affect the behaviour and quantum state of the particles. Therefore, the ENU method proves to be an effective and robust approach for solving Schrödinger-like equations involving polynomials up to fourth order. This research holds promise for applications in diverse fields of physics.
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Author contributions
HA: Validation, Writing – original draft, Project administration, Funding acquisition. AI: Writing – review and editing, Formal Analysis, Supervision. UO: Writing – original draft, Investigation, Validation, Conceptualization. GR: Supervision, Software, Writing – review and editing. RH: Writing – review and editing, Methodology, Formal Analysis, Investigation.
Funding
The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research and/or publication of this article. The work was funded by Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project number (PNURSP2025R106), Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Acknowledgments
Dr. U. S. Okorie acknowledges the support of the University of South Africa for the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Department of Physics.
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Keywords: Klein-Gordon oscillator (KGO), screened Kratzer potential (SKP), extended Nikiforov-Uvarov (ENU) method, Aharonov and Bohm (AB) field, magnetic flux
Citation: Alrebdi HI, Ikot AN, Okorie US, Rampho GJ and Horchani R (2025) Klein-Gordon oscillator interacting with screened Kratzer potential in a cosmic string space-time with space-like dislocation and AB field. Front. Phys. 13:1620283. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2025.1620283
Received: 29 April 2025; Accepted: 16 July 2025;
Published: 19 August 2025.
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