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A generalization of the Lagrangian introduced earlier in [2011 {\it J. Phys. G} ${\bf 37}$ 105001] for a classical color spinning particle interacting with background non-Abelian gauge and fermion fields for purpose of considering a change…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-12 Yuri A. Markov , Margarita A. Markova , Alexey A. Shishmarev , Alexander N. Vall

An earlier scheme [arXiv:2404.03360], where torsion plays an essential part in a flat spacetime account of fermion spin, is extended to spacetimes with non-zero Riemann curvature. It is found that further essential features of the fermion,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-18 William J. Leigh

A relativistic spin operator cannot be uniquely defined within relativistic quantum mechanics. Previously, different proper relativistic spin operators have been proposed, such as spin operators of the Foldy-Wouthuysen and Pryce type, that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-27 Ritwik Mondal , Peter M. Oppeneer

We define and study kinematical observables involving fermion spin, such as the total spin of a collection of particles, in loop quantum gravity. Due to the requirement of gauge invariance, the relevant quantum states contain strong…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Refik Mansuroglu , Hanno Sahlmann

The Hamiltonian formulation of the motion of a spinning relativistic particle in an external electromagnetic field is considered. The approach is based on the introduction of new coordinates and their conjugated momenta to describe the spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Chaichian , R. Gonzalez Felipe , D. Louis Martinez

We investigate the effective Dirac equation, corrected by merging two scenarios that are expected to emerge towards the quantum gravity scale. Namely, the existence of a minimal length, implemented by the generalized uncertainty principle,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-18 J. M. Hoff da Silva , D. Beghetto , R. T. Cavalcanti , R. da Rocha

The Green function of the quark-antiquark system in the confining background field is analysed using the Feynman-Schwinger formalism. The Hamiltonian for the case of massive spinning quarks is obtained in the form containing essentially…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Kustov

The Hamiltonian of relativistic particles with electric and magnetic dipole moments that interact with an electromagnetic field is determined in the Foldy-Wouthuysen representation. Transition to the semiclassical approximation is carried…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Silenko

In this work, we readdress the Dirac equation in the position-dependent mass (PDM) scenario. Here, one investigates the quantum dynamics of non-Hermitian fermionic particles with effective mass assuming a $(1+1)$-dimension flat spacetime.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 F. C. E. Lima , L. N. Monteiro , C. A. S. Almeida

The new manifestation of conformal invariance for a massless scalar particle in a Riemannian spacetime of general relativity is found. Conformal transformations conserve the Hamiltonian and wave function in the Foldy-Wouthuysen…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Alexander J. Silenko

We study a formulation of euclidean general relativity in which the dynamical variables are given by a sequence of real numbers $\lambda_{n}$, representing the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on the curved spacetime. These quantities are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Giovanni Landi , Carlo Rovelli

In paper within the model with a maximal mass M and with use of anti de Sitter space is considered the Dirac equation properties for a fermion of mass m on the mass surface. The paper shows that free Hamiltonian and Hamiltonian with…

General Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 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

The Dirac equation provides a description of spin 1/2 particles, consistent with both the principles of quantum mechanics and of special relativity. Often its presentation to students is based on mathematical propositions that may hide the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-01 S. Savasta , O. Di Stefano , O. M. Marago

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

Although intrinsic spin is usually viewed as a purely quantum property with no classical analog, we present evidence here that fermion spin has a classical origin rooted in the geometry of three-dimensional physical space. Our approach to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 W. E. Baylis , R. Cabrera , D. Keselica

The classical and quantum dynamics of the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universe with massless scalar and massive fermion matter field as a source is discussed in the framework of the Dirac generalized Hamiltonian formalism. The Hamiltonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. M. Khvedelidze , Yu. G. Palii

We explore an unusual type of quantum matter that can be realized by qubits having different physical origin. Interactions in this matter are described by essentially different coupling operators for all qubits. We show that at least the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 V. Y. Chernyak , N. A. Sinitsyn , C. Sun

We derive the interaction of fermions with a dynamical space-time based on the postulate that the description of physics should be independent of the reference frame, which means to require the form-invariance of the fermion action under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-31 Jürgen Struckmeier , David Vasak

The tetrad gauge invariant theory of the free Dirac field in two special moving charts of the de Sitter spacetime is investigated pointing out the operators that commute with the Dirac one. These are the generators of the symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Ion I. Cotaescu