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By combining general relativity and CPT symmetry, the theory of CPT gravity predicts gravitational repulsion between matter and CPT-transformed matter, i.e. antimatter inhabiting an inverted space-time. Such repulsive gravity turned out to…

General Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Massimo Villata

Until now, there is no experimental evidence on the gravitational behaviour of antimatter. While we may be confident that antimatter attracts antimatter, we do not know anything on the interaction between matter and antimatter. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-09 Massimo Villata

We know that the generally accepted theories of gravity and quantum mechanics are fundamentally incompatible. Thus, when we try to combine these theories, we must beware of physical pitfalls. Modern theories of quantum gravity are trying to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Martin Nieto , T. Goldman , John D. Anderson , Eunice L. Lau , J. Pérez-Mercader

Using the Einstein energy-mass relation and a concept of cross-correlating material unit-fields (pp. 1-148), the quantum equation for united gravitation and electromagnetism is derived (pp. 148-164). The unified equation yields all known…

General Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 S. V. Kukhlevsky

In this work, we have obtained the solutions of the (1 + 1) dimensional Dirac equation on a gravitational background within the generalized uncertainty principle. We have shown that how minimal length parameters effect the Dirac particle in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-18 Ozlem Yesiltas

Dirac operators on curved space-times are introduced with the help of a new point-view that observers have to be included in the formulation of natural laws. The class of Dirac operators are Lorentz invariant in the sense that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Zhongmin Qian

Based on unified theory of electromagnetic interactions and gravitational interactions, the non-relativistic limit of the equation of motion of a charged Dirac particle in gravitational field is studied. From the Schrodinger equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ning Wu

A two dimensional matter coupled model of quantum gravity is studied in the Dirac approach to constrained dynamics in the presence of a cosmological constant. It is shown that after partial fixing to the conformal gauge the requirement of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-29 Jan Govaerts , Simone Zonetti

The production of antihydrogen by several research groups provides the opportunity to measure the gravitational behaviour of antimatter in the gravitational field of the Earth. The predictions in the literature range from normal attraction…

General Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 K. Wilhelm , B. N. Dwivedi

A rigorous \textit{ab initio} derivation of the (square of) Dirac's equation for a single particle with spin is presented. The general Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the particle expressed in terms of a background Weyl's conformal geometry is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Enrico Santamato

The aim of this brief review is twofold. First, we give an overview of the unprecedented experimental efforts to measure the gravitational acceleration of antimatter; with antihydrogen in three competing experiments at CERN (AEGIS, ALPHA…

General Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 Dragan Hajdukovic

Gravitational interaction unavoidably influences atoms and their electromagnetic radiation field in strong gravitational fields. Theoretical description of such effects using the curved metric of general relativity is limited due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Mikko Partanen , Jukka Tulkki

There has been renewed interest in the idea of antigravity -- that matter and antimatter repel gravitationally - in lieu of the recent beautiful ALPHA-g result for the free-fall acceleration of antihydrogen of $a_{\bar{H}}=(0.75\pm…

General Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Scott Menary

A rigorous \textit{ab initio} derivation of the (square of) Dirac's equation for a single particle with spin is presented. The general Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the particle expressed in terms of a background Weyl's conformal geometry is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Enrico Santamato , Francesco De Martini

The Dirac equation is a cornerstone in the history of physics, merging successfully quantum mechanics with special relativity, providing a natural description of the electron spin and predicting the existence of anti-matter. Furthermore, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-08 R. Gerritsma , G. Kirchmair , F. Zähringer , E. Solano , R. Blatt , C. F. Roos

Generalized Dirac equation containing vacuum-mass contribution is introduced. The vacuum-mass contribution arises due to the coupling of quantum mechanical matter field with the vacuum field. Vacuum stress energy tensor arises in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-20 Sijo K. Joseph

By requiring unambiguous symmetric quantization leading to the Dirac equation in a curved space, we obtain a special representation of the spin connections in terms of the Dirac gamma matrices and their space-time derivatives. We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-22 A. D. Alhaidari , A. Jellal

The geometric properties of General Relativity are reconsidered as a particular nonlinear interaction of fields on a flat background where the perceived geometry and coordinates are "physical" entities that are interpolated by a patchwork…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-20 Clifford E. Chafin

In this paper we construct an analytical separation (diagonalization) of the full (minimal coupling) Dirac equation into particle and antiparticle components. The diagonalization is analytic in that it is achieved without transforming the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. L. Gill , W. W. Zachary

A model is suggested to unify the Einstein GR and Dirac Cosmology. There is one adjusted parameter $b_2$ in our model. After adjusting the parameter $b_2$ in the model by using the supernova data, we have calculated the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Cheng-Gang Shao , Jianyong Shen , Bin Wang , Ru-Keng Su