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Dirac fermions in a spinning conical G\"odel-type spacetime

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-09-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In this paper, we determine the relativistic and nonrelativistic energy levels for Dirac fermions in a spinning conical G\"odel-type spacetime in (2+1)(2+1)-dimensions, where we work with the curved Dirac equation in polar coordinates and we use the tetrads formalism. Solving a second-order differential equation for the two components of the Dirac spinor, we obtain a generalized Laguerre equation, and the relativistic energy levels of the fermion and antifermion, where such levels are quantized in terms of the radial and total magnetic quantum numbers nn and mjm_j, and explicitly depends on the spin parameter ss (describes the ``spin''), spinorial parameter uu (describes the two components of the spinor), curvature and rotation parameters α\alpha and β\beta (describes the conical curvature and the angular momentum of the spinning cosmic string), and on the vorticity parameter Ω\Omega (describes the G\"odel-type spacetime). In particular, the quantization is a direct result of the existence of Ω\Omega (i.e. Ω\Omega acts as a kind of ``external field or potential''). We see that for mj>0m_j>0, the energy levels do not depend on ss and uu; however, depend on nn, mjm_j, α\alpha, and β\beta. In this case, α\alpha breaks the degeneracy of the energy levels and such levels can increase infinitely in the limit 4Ωβα1\frac{4\Omega\beta}{\alpha}\to 1. Already for mj<0m_j<0, we see that the energy levels depends on ss, uu and nn; however, it no longer depends on mjm_j, α\alpha and β\beta. In this case, it is as if the fermion ``lives only in a flat G\"odel-type spacetime''. Besides, we also study the low-energy or nonrelativistic limit of the system. In both cases (relativistic and nonrelativistic), we graphically analyze the behavior of energy levels as a function of Ω\Omega, α\alpha, and β\beta for three different values of nn (ground state and the first two excited states).

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@article{arxiv.2405.11334,
  title  = {Dirac fermions in a spinning conical G\"odel-type spacetime},
  author = {R. R. S. Oliveira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.11334},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

15 pages, 6 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2402.15720