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General description of Dirac spin-rotation effect with relativistic factor

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

The Mashhoon rotation-spin coupling is studied by means of the parallelism description of general relativity. The relativistic rotational tetrad is exploited, which results in the Minkowski metric, and the torsion axial-vector and Dirac spin coupling will give the Mashhoon rotation-spin term. For the high speed rotating cases, the tangent velocity constructed by the angular velocity \Ome\Ome multiplying the distance r may exceed over the speed of light c, i.e., \Omerc\Ome r \ge c, which will make the relativistic factor γ\gamma infinity or imaginary. In order to avoid this "meaningless" difficulty occurred in γ\gamma factor, we choose to make the rotation nonuniform and position-dependent in a particular way, and then we find that the new rotation-spin coupling energy expression is consistent with the previous results in the low speed limit.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0701044,
  title  = {General description of Dirac spin-rotation effect with relativistic factor},
  author = {C. M. Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0701044},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

8 pages, accepted by IJMPD 2007