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Spin 0 and spin 1/2 quantum relativistic particles in a constant gravitational field

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-07 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

The Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations in a semi-infinite lab (x>0x > 0), in the background metric \ds2=u2(x)(\dt2+\dx2)+\dy2+\dz2\ds^2 = u^2(x) (-\dt^2 + \dx^2) + \dy^2 + \dz^2, are investigated. The resulting equations are studied for the special case u(x)=1+gx u(x) = 1 + g x. It is shown that in the case of zero transverse-momentum, the square of the energy eigenvalues of the spin-1/2 particles are less than the squares of the corresponding eigenvalues of spin-0 particles with same masses, by an amount of mgcmg\hbar c. Finally, for nonzero transverse-momentum, the energy eigenvalues corresponding to large quantum numbers are obtained, and the results for spin-0 and spin-1/2 particles are compared to each other.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0210095,
  title  = {Spin 0 and spin 1/2 quantum relativistic particles in a constant gravitational field},
  author = {M. Khorrami and M. Alimohammadi and A. Shariati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0210095},
  year   = {2009}
}

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