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Starting from Schr\"odinger's equation, Hamilton's classical equations of motion emerge from the collapse of the unsymmetrized wave function in a decoherent open quantum system entangled with its environment.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Phil Attard

The motion of a spinning particle in the exterior of a Kerr-Newman black hole is studied. The dynamics is governed by the Mathisson-Papapetrou equations in the pole-dipole approximation, including the spin-curvature coupling to leading…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-05 Yi-Ping Chen , Tien Hsieh , Da-Shin Lee

New representation of the exact Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon equations at the Mathisson-Pirani condition in the Kerr metric which does not contain the third-order derivatives of the coordinates of a spinning particle is obtained. For this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-13 Roman Plyatsko , Oleksandr Stefanyshyn , Mykola Fenyk

It is shown using numerical simulation that classical charged tachyons have several features normally thought to be unique to quantum mechanics. Spin-like self-orbiting helical motions are shown to exist at discrete values for the velocity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark P Davidson

We study the motion of electrons in a periodic background potential (usually resulting from a crystalline solid). For small velocities one would use either the non-magnetic or the magnetic Bloch hamiltonian, while in the relativistic regime…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-12-31 Gianluca Panati , Herbert Spohn , Stefan Teufel

The general classical equation of spin motion is rigorously derived for a particle with electric and magnetic charges and dipole moments in electromagnetic fields. The equation describing the spin motion relative to the momentum direction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-25 Alexander J. Silenko

In the context of investigations of possible highly relativistic motions of a spinning particle in the gravitational field, which can be described by the Mathisson equations under different supplementary condition, we analyze the circular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-03-04 Roman Plyatsko , Oleksandr Stefanyshyn

When a set of particles are moving in a potential field, two aspects are concerned: 1) the relative motion of particle in spatial domain; 2) the particle velocity variations in time domain. The difficulty on treating the systems is…

General Physics · Physics 2011-05-18 Xiao Jianhua

The Mathisson-Papapetrou equations in the Schwarzschild background both at Mathisson-Pirani and Tulczyjew-Dixon supplementary condition are considered. The region of existence of highly relativistic circular orbits of a spinning particle in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Roman Plyatsko , Mykola Fenyk

We study the of motion of a spinning, dilating particle with hadronic properties moving on a generic geometric background including curvature, torsion, and nonmetricity. In particular, we discuss generalized spin supplementary conditions…

General Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Damianos Iosifidis

The Proca-Corben-Schwinger equations for a spin-1 particle with an anomalous magnetic moment are added by a term describing an electric dipole moment, then they are reduced to a Hamiltonian form, and finally they are brought to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-26 Alexander J. Silenko

We discuss the problem of defining the center of mass in general relativity and the so-called spin supplementary condition. The different spin conditions in the literature, their physical significance, and the momentum-velocity relation for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-07 L. Filipe Costa , José Natário

We discuss the motion of electrically and magnetically charged particles in the electromagnetic swirling universe. We show that the equations of motion can be decoupled in the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism, revealing the existence of a fourth…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-08 Rogério Capobianco , Betti Hartmann , Jutta Kunz

The motion of spinning test-masses in curved space-time is described with a covariant hamiltonian formalism. A large class of hamiltonians can be used with the model- independent Poisson-Dirac brackets, to obtain equations of motion. Here…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-23 S. Satish Kumar

It is a well-known fact that helicity is a Lorentz-invariant for massless but not for massive particles. Nevertheless, a satisfactory proof of this fact and a detailed analysis on the relative orientation between spin and the momentum are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 Cheng-Yang Lee

We consider the problem of having relativistic quantum mechanics re-formulated with hydrodynamic variables, and specifically the problem of deriving the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon equations from the Dirac equation. The problem will be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-15 Luca Fabbri

In this letter, we discuss the extension of Feynman's derivation of the equation of motion to the case of spinning particles. We show that a spinning particle interacts only with the electromagnetic and gravitational fields. In the absence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Chihong Chou

We compare the rigorous equations describing the motion of spinning test particles in gravitational and electromagnetic fields, and show that if the Mathisson-Pirani spin condition holds then exact gravito-electromagnetic analogies emerge.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-12 L. Filipe O. Costa , José Natário , Miguel Zilhão

We analyze motion of massless and massive particles around black holes immersed in an asymptotically uniform magnetic field and surrounded by some mechanical structure, which provides the magnetic field. The space-time is described by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. A. Konoplya

We describe the trajectories of circular orbits of spinless and spinning test particles around of rotating bodies in equatorial and non-equatorial planes via the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon equations which include the Ricci rotation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-12 Nelson Velandia SJ , Alfonso Leyva , Javier Alexander Cano-Arango