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High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Thomas Strobl

The Dirac equation for an electron in two spatial dimensions in the Coulomb and homogeneous magnetic fields is discussed. For weak magnetic fields, the approximate energy values are obtained by semiclassical method. In the case with strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Choon-Lin Ho , V. R. Khalilov

We consider the spinorial wave equations, namely the Dirac and the Klein-Gordon equations, and greybody radiation in the NUT black hole spacetime. To this end, we first study the Dirac equation in NUT spacetime by using a null tetrad in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-12 Ahmad Al-Badawi , Sara Kanzi , İzzet Sakallı

We use Boltzmann theory to study the semi-classical dynamics of electrons in a two-dimensional (2D) tilted Dirac material in which the tilt varies in space. The spatial variation of the tilt parameter induces a non-trivial spacetime…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Abolfath Hosseinzadeh , Seyed Akbar Jafari

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

We summarize recent results on $D$-dimensional Robinson-Trautman solutions of Einstein's gravity in the presence of a conformally invariant non-linear electromagnetic field and a cosmological constant. These spacetimes contain static dyonic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-01 David Kokoška , Marcello Ortaggio

In this paper, we study the Dirac equation for an electron constrained to move on a catenoid surface. We decoupled the two components of the spinor and obtained two Klein-Gordon-like equations. Analytical solutions were obtained using…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Ö. Yeşiltaş , J. Furtado , J. E. G. Silva

We prove that, in the non-extreme Kerr-Newman black hole geometry, the Dirac equation has no normalizable, time-periodic solutions. A key tool is Chandrasekhar's separation of the Dirac equation in this geometry. A similar non-existence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-28 Felix Finster , Niky Kamran , Joel Smoller , Shing-Tung Yau

We provide a new approach to study the noncommutative effects on the neutral Dirac particle with anomalous magnetic or electric dipole moment on the noncommutative plane. The advantages of this approach are demonstrated by investigating the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-22 Kai Ma , Jian-hua Wang , Huan-Xiong Yang

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

We consider the massive Dirac-Klein-Gordon system in two space dimensions. Under the non-resonace mass condition, we show that the solution is asymptotically free if the initial data are sufficiently small in a suitable weighted Sobolev…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-22 Masahiro Ikeda , Akihiro Shimomura , Hideaki Sunagawa

As is known, the gravitational and electromagnetic (EM) field of the Dirac electron is described by an over-extremal Kerr-Newman (KN) black hole (BH) solution which has the naked singular ring and two-sheeted topology. This space is…

General Physics · Physics 2015-10-09 Alexander Burinskii

A toy model for the electroweak interactions(without chirality) is proposed in a six dimensional spacetime with 3 timelike and 3 spacelike coordinates. The spacetime interval $ds^2=dx_\mu dx^\mu$ is left invariant under the symmetry group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-28 C. A. Dartora , G. G. Cabrera

We showed before that self-dual electromagnetism in noncommutative (NC) spacetime is equivalent to self-dual Einstein gravity. This result implies a striking picture about gravity: Gravity can emerge from electromagnetism in NC spacetime.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-12 Hyun Seok Yang

In the present article, using a further generalization of the algebraic method of separation of variables, the Dirac equation is separated in a family of space-times where it is not possible to find a complete set of first order commuting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-14 Víctor M. Villalba

Electronic band gap and transport in quasi-periodic graphene superlattice of double-periodic sequence have been investigated. It is found that such quasi-periodic structure can possess a zero-averaged wave number (zero-$\bar{k}$) gap which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-29 Xi Chen , Pei-Liang Zhao , Qi-Biao Zhu

We present a recent work on the Dirac equation in a curved spacetime. In addition to the standard equation, two alternative versions are considered, derived from wave mechanics, and based on the tensor representation of the Dirac field. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-10-06 Mayeul Arminjon , Frank Reifler

We present an approximate solution to the minimally coupled Einstein-Dirac equations. We interpret the solution as describing a massive fermion coexisting with its own gravitational field. The solution is axisymmetric but is time dependent.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-28 Jianwei Mei

We investigate the local energy decay of solutions of the Dirac equation in the non-extreme Kerr-Newman metric. First, we write the Dirac equation as a Cauchy problem and define the Dirac operator. It is shown that the Dirac operator is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-20 Monika Winklmeier , Osanobu Yamada

Reformulation of the Dirac equation in terms of the real Spacetime Algebra (STA) reveals hidden geometric structure, including a geometric role for the unit imaginary as generator of rotations in a spacelike plane. The STA and the real…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 David Hestenes