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Quantum field theory predicts that dynamical curved spacetimes can spontaneously excite particle pairs from the quantum vacuum, a phenomenon extensively studied in expanding universes and in scenarios involving gravitational collapse. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 Adrián del Río , Pau López-Oliver

We study the Wigner function for massive spin-1/2 fermions in electromagnetic fields. Dirac form kinetic equation and Klein-Gordon form kinetic equation are obtained for the Wigner function, which are derived from the Dirac equation. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-04 Xin-Li Sheng

We derive a system of coupled partial differential equations for the equal-time Wigner function in an arbitrary strong electromagnetic field using the Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. In the electrostatic limit, we present a 3+1-system of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Haidar Al-Naseri , Jens Zamanian , Gert Brodin

Electron-positron pair production in space- and time-dependent electromagnetic fields is investigated. Especially, the influence of a time-dependent, inhomogeneous magnetic field on the particle momenta and the total particle yield is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-16 Christian Kohlfürst , Reinhard Alkofer

The bispinor wave function finds its fundamental application in the study of electrons, neutrinos and protons as particles bound by their own potentials. Classical electromagnetism and the Dirac electron theory appear to be natural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Yair Goldin

A method of Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation for relativistic spin-1/2 particles in external fields is proposed. It permits determination of the Hamilton operator in the Foldy-Wouthuysen representation with any accuracy. Interactions between…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Alexander J. Silenko

We demonstrate that spin-orbit coupled states are generated in neutral magnetic spin 1/2 particles travelling through an electric field. The quantization axis of the orbital angular momentum is parallel to the electric field, hence both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Niels Geerits , Stephan Sponar

The behavior of spin-1/2 particle in a weak static gravitational field is considered. The Dirac Hamiltonian is diagonalized by the Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation providing also the simple form for the momentum and spin polarization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. J. Silenko , O. V. Teryaev

Particle production due to external fields (electric, chromo-electric or gravitational) requires evolving an initial state through an interaction with a time-dependent background, with the rate being computed from a Bogoliubov…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-11 Cesim K. Dumlu , Gerald V. Dunne

We evaluate the cross section for electron-positron pair production by a single high energy photon in the space-time of a static, straight cosmic string. Energy and momentum conservation precludes this process in empty Minkowski space. It…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Vladimir Skarzhinsky , Diego Harari , Ulf Jasper

We analyze the creation of fermions and bosons from the vacuum by the exponentially decreasing in time electric field in detail. In our calculations we use QED and follow in main the consideration of particle creation effect in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 T. C. Adorno , S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman

We discuss the equations for the bound one-active electron states based on the analytic solutions of the Schrodinger and Pauli equations for a uniform magnetic field and a single attractive $\delta({\bf r})$-potential. It is vary important…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 V. N. Rodionov , G. A. Kravtsova

We present a novel study of the time evolutions of entangled states of three spin-1/2 particles in the presence of a constant external magnetic field, which causes the individual spins to precess and leads to remarkable periodicities in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 Amitabha Chakrabarti , Anirban Chakraborti

Using the phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics, we derive a four-component Wigner equation for a system composed of spin-1/2 fermions (typically, electrons) including the Zeeman effect and the spin-orbit coupling. This Wigner…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Jerome Hurst , Paul-Antoine Hervieux , Giovanni Manfredi

Probabilities of events are expressed by the spinor functions and by operators of a probability creation and by operators of a probability annihilation. The motion equations in form of the Dirac equations with the additional fields are…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Quznetsov

In this work, we study the Aharonov-Casher effect in the $(2+1)$-dimensional Dirac oscillator coupled to an external electromagnetic field. We set up our system in two different scenarios: in the Minkowski spacetime and the cosmic string…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-29 R. R. S. Oliveira , R. V. Maluf , C. A. S. Almeida

The paper is devoted to the formulation of quantum field theory for an early universe in General Relativity considered as the Dirac general constrained system. The main idea is the Hamiltonian reduction of the constrained system in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. N. Pervushin , V. I. Smirichinski

Analytical expressions are derived for sums of matrix elements and their squared moduli over many-body states with given total spin --- the states built from spin and spatial wavefunctions belonging to multidimensional irreducible…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-04 Vladimir A. Yurovsky

We develop the general theory of spinning particles with electric and magnetic dipole moments moving in arbitrary electromagnetic, inertial and gravitational fields. Both the quantum-mechanical and classical dynamics is investigated. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-15 Yuri N. Obukhov , Alexander J. Silenko , Oleg V. Teryaev

The second-order modified Dirac equation leading to the modified dispersion relation due to the Lorentz invariance violation corrections is suggested. The equation is formulated in the 16-component first- order form. I have obtained the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-03 S. I. Kruglov