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In the present paper we consider a theory of gravity in which not only curvature but also torsion is explicitly present in the Lagrangian, both with their own coupling constant. In particular, we discuss the couplings to Dirac fields and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-06 Luca Fabbri , Stefano Vignolo , Cosimo Stornaiolo

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

We study a relativistic charged Dirac particle moving in a rotating magnetic field. By using a time-dependent unitary transformation, the Dirac equation with the time-dependent Hamiltonian can be reduced to a Dirac-like equation with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Qiong-gui Lin

The Dirac equation, in the field of a traveling circularly polarized electromagnetic wave and a constant magnetic field, has singular solutions, corresponding the expansion of energy in vicinity of some singular point. These solutions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-15 Boris V. Gisin

When tetrad (metric) fields are not invertible, the standard canonical formulation of gravity cannot be adopted as it is. Here we develop a Hamiltonian theory of gravity for non-invertible tetrad. In contrast to Einstein gravity, this phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-13 Sandipan Sengupta

We investigate the nonrelativistic limit of the gravitationally coupled Dirac Equation via a Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation. The relativistic correction terms have immediate and obvious physical interpretations in terms of a gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-26 U. D. Jentschura , J. H. Noble

The authors prove that the dynamics of spin 1/2 particles in stationary gravitational fields can be described using an approach, which builds upon the formalism of pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians. The proof consists in the analysis of three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-23 M. V. Gorbatenko , V. P. Neznamov

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

These are introductory notes on the study of the Dirac equation in curved spacetime and its relation to hidden symmetries of the dynamics. We present general results on the relation between special spacetime tensors and hidden symmetries,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-01 Marco Cariglia

Spin of elementary particles is the only kinematic degree of freedom not having classical corre- spondence. It arises when seeking for the finite-dimensional representations of the Lorentz group, which is the only symmetry group of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-31 S. Savasta , O. Di Stefano

We extend to quantum mechanical systems results previously obtained for classical mechanical systems, concerning time reversibility in presence of a magnetic field. As in the classical case, results like the Onsager reciprocal relations are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Davide Carbone , Paolo De Gregorio , Lamberto Rondoni

A consistent classical mechanics formulation is presented in such a way that, under quantization, it gives a noncommutative quantum theory with interesting new features. The Dirac formalism for constrained Hamiltonian systems is strongly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-12 Ricardo Amorim

We show that the Dirac theory of the electron, corresponds to recent approaches based on a Non commutative spacetime.

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. G. Sidharth

We study the quantum mechanics of a Dirac fermion on a curved spacetime manifold. The metric of the spacetime is completely arbitrary, allowing for the discussion of all possible inertial and gravitational field configurations. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-04 Yuri N. Obukhov , Alexander J. Silenko , Oleg V. Teryaev

This is a review of the chrono-geometrical structure of special and general relativity with a special emphasis on the role of non-inertial frames and of the conventions for the synchronization of distant clocks. ADM canonical metric and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Luca Lusanna

For the Dirac particle in the rotational system, the rotation induced inertia effect is analogously treated as the modification of the "spin connection" on the Dirac equation in the flat spacetime, which is determined by the equivalent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 C. M. Zhang , A. Beesham

The relativistic spinning particle model, proposed in [3,4], is analyzed in a Hamiltonian framework. The spin is simulated by extending the configuration space by introducing a light-like four vector degree of freedom. The model is heavily…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Sudipta Das , Subir Ghosh

In this contribution, we study the Dirac oscillator under the influence of noninertial effects of a rotating frame in the cosmic string spacetime. We show that both noninertial effects and the topology of the cosmic string spacetime…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-28 K. Bakke

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

We study the notion of a Dirac operator in the framework of twist-deformed noncommutative geometry. We provide a number of well-motivated candidate constructions and propose a minimal set of axioms that a noncommutative Dirac operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-17 Alexander Schenkel , Christoph F. Uhlemann