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A new gauge theory of gravity is presented. The theory is constructed in a flat background spacetime and employs gauge fields to ensure that all relations between physical quantities are independent of the positions and orientations of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Anthony Lasenby , Chris Doran , Stephen Gull

Basically (2 + 1) dimensional Dirac equation with real deformed Lorentz scalar potential is investi gated in this study. The position dependent Fermi velocity function transforms Dirac Hamiltonian into a Klein-Gordon-like effective…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 O. Yesiltas , B. Cagatay

We present a framework to elucidate the existence of accidental contacts of energy bands, particularly those called Dirac points which are the point contacts with linear energy dispersions in their vicinity. A generalized von-Neumann-Wigner…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Kenichi Asano , Chisa Hotta

It is proven that the usual quadratic general-covariant Lagrangian for the Dirac field leads to a symmetric, divergence-free energy-momentum tensor in the standard Riemannian framework of space-time without torsion, provided the tetrad…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Ludger Hannibal

The quantum mechanics of black holes in generic 2-D dilaton gravity is considered. The Hamiltonian surface terms are derived for boundary conditions corresponding to an eternal black hole with slices on the interior ending on the horizon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Barvinsky , G. Kunstatter

An electromagnetic field of simple algebraic structure is simply derived. It turns out to be the G=0 limit of the charged rotating Kerr-Newman metrics. These all have gyromagnetic ratio 2, the same as the Dirac electron. The charge and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Donald Lynden-Bell

In this paper we show that the Schr\"odinger-Newton equation for spherically symmetric gravitational fields can be derived in a WKB-like expansion in 1/c from the Einstein-Klein-Gordon and Einstein-Dirac system.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-08 Domenico Giulini , André Großardt

A systematic Hamiltonian formulation of the Einstein-Cartan system, based on the Hilbert-Palatini action with the Barbero-Immirzi and cosmological constants, is performed using the traditional ADM decomposition and without fixing the time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-12 Erick I. Duque

In Hamiltonian GR, change has seemed to be missing, defined only asymptotically, or otherwise obscured at best. By construing change as essential time dependence, can one find change locally in Hamiltonian GR with spinors? This paper is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-24 J. Brian Pitts

It is shown that systems described by Harper's equation exhibit a Dirac point at the center of the spectrum whenever the field parameter is a fraction of even denominator. The Dirac point is formed by the touching of two subbands, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-24 F. Claro

The gravitational effects in the relativistic quantum mechanics are investigated. The exact Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation is constructed for the Dirac particle coupled to the static spacetime metric. As a direct application, we analyze…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-17 Yuri N. Obukhov

Contrary to common belief, (electro)vacuum Brans-Dicke gravity does not reduce to general relativity for large Brans-Dicke coupling $\omega$, a problem which has never been fully solved. Two new approaches, independent from each other, shed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 Valerio Faraoni , Jeremy Côté

The Poincare and Poincare-Weyl gauge theories of gravitation with Lagrangians quadratic on curvature and torsion in post-Riemannian spaces with the Dirac scalar field is discussed in a historical aspect. The various hypothesizes concerning…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-01 O. V. Babourova , B. N. Frolov , P. E. Kudlaev , E. V. Romanova

On the basis of the Poincare-Weyl gauge theory of gravitation, a new conformal Weyl-Dirac theory of gravitation is proposed, which is a gravitational theory in Cartan-Weyl spacetime with the Dirac scalar field representing the dark matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-17 O. V. Babourova , B. N. Frolov , P. E. Kudlaev

The system of gravity coupled to the non-rotational dust field is studied at both classical and quantum levels. The scalar constraint of the system can be written in the form of a true physical Hamiltonian with respect to the dust time. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-15 Xiangdong Zhang , Yongge Ma

We establish the gravitational detectability of a Dirac monopole using a weak-field limit of general relativity, which can be developed from the Newtonian gravitational potential by including energy as a source. The resulting potential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-22 E. Banyas , J. Franklin

In this paper we prove well posedness for a system coupling a nonlinear Dirac with a Klein-Gordon equation that represents a toy model for the Helium atom with relativistic corrections: the wave function of the electrons interacts with an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Federico Cacciafesta , Anne-Sophie de Suzzoni , Long Meng , Jérémy Sok

The Hamiltonian approach to the General Relativity is formulated as a joint nonlinear realization of conformal and affine symmetries by means of the Dirac scalar dilaton and the Maurer-Cartan forms. The dominance of the Casimir vacuum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 V. N. Pervushin , A. B. Arbuzov , B. M. Barbashov , R. G. Nazmitdinov , A. Borowiec , K. N. Pichugin , A. F. Zakharov

Quantum geometry is a well-established framework for understanding transport and optical responses in quantum materials. In this work, I study the photon drag effect in Dirac electrons using the quantum geometric interpretation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Guanxiong Qu

We investigate the gravitational Faraday effect in the Kerr-Newman-Taub-NUT space-time under the weak deflection limit. Contrary to previously stated zero net effect when the source and the observer are remote from the black hole, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-06 Hongying Guo