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A pedagogical introduction to the Dirac equation for massive particles in Rindler space is presented. The spin connection coefficients are explicitly derived using techniques from general relativity. We then apply the Lagrange-Green…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 David McMahon , Paul M. Alsing , Pedro Embid

We construct the Wightman function for symmetric traceless tensors and Dirac fermions in dS$_{d+1}$ in a coordinate and index free formalism using a $d+2$ dimensional ambient space. We expand the embedding space formalism to cover spinor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-16 Ben Pethybridge , Vladimir Schaub

We present a semiclassical analysis for Dirac fields on an arbitrary spacetime background and in the presence of a fixed electromagnetic field. Our approach is based on a Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation, and the results are analyzed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-16 Marius A. Oancea , Achal Kumar

On $Spin^c$ manifolds, we study the Energy-Momentum tensor associated with a spinor field. First, we give a spinorial Gauss type formula for oriented hypersurfaces of a $Spin^c$ manifold. Using the notion of generalized cylinders, we derive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Roger Nakad

Usually the quantum spin Hall states are expected to possess gapless, helical edge modes. Are there clean, non-interacting, quantum spin Hall states without gapless, edge modes? We show the generic, $n$-fold-symmetric, momentum planes of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Alexander C. Tyner , Shouvik Sur , Danilo Puggioni , James M. Rondinelli , Pallab Goswami

We study reduction of Dirac structures from the point of view of pure spinors. We describe explicitly the pure spinor line bundle of the reduced Dirac structure. We also obtain results on reduction of generalized Calabi-Yau structures.

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Thiago Drummond

The aim of this paper is to investigate the separability of a spin-1/2 spinor field in a five-dimensional rotating, charged black hole constructed by Cvetic and Youm in string theory, in the case when three U(1) charges are set equal. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Shuang-Qing Wu

The essentially unique torsionful version of the classical two-component spinor formalisms of Infeld and van der Waerden is presented. All the metric spinors and connecting objects that arise here are formally the same as the ones borne by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-01-26 J. G. Cardoso

We consider the three-dimensional Dirac equation in spherical coordinates with coupling to static electromagnetic potential. The space components of the potential have angular (non-central) dependence such that the Dirac equation is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Alhaidari

We study $(2+1)$ dimensional Dirac equation with complex scalar and Lorentz scalar potentials. It is shown that the Dirac equation admits exact analytical solutions with real eigenvalues for certain complex potentials while for another…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 C. -L. Ho , P. Roy

In a Minkowski spacetime, one may transform the Dirac wave function under the spin group, as one transforms coordinates under the Poincar\'e group. This is not an option in a curved spacetime. Therefore, in the equation proposed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-30 Mayeul Arminjon , Frank Reifler

The relationship between spinors and Clifford (or geometric) algebra has long been studied, but little consistency may be found between the various approaches. However, when spinors are defined to be elements of the even subalgebra of some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew R. Francis , Arthur Kosowsky

Coupling of the spin and orbital degrees of freedom on the surface of a strong three-dimensional insulator, on the one hand, and textured magnetic configuration in an adjacent ferromagnetic film, on the other, is studied using a combination…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , D. A. Pesin , Daniel Loss

In this paper we analyze the invariance of the Dirac equation under disformal transformations depending on the propagating spinor field. Using the Weyl-Cartan formalism, we construct a large class of disformal maps between different metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 Eduardo Bittencourt , Iarley P. Lobo , Gabriel G. Carvalho

We present a general model allowing "quantum simulation" of one-dimensional Dirac models with 2- and 4-component spinors using ultracold atoms in driven 1D tilted optical latices. The resulting Dirac physics is illustrated by one of its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Jean Claude Garreau , Véronique Zehnlé

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

First, the present work is concerned with generalising constructions and results in quantum field theory on curved spacetimes from the well-known case of the Klein-Gordon field to Dirac fields. To this end, the enlarged algebra of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-22 Thomas-Paul Hack

The Dirac equation in spherically symmetric fields is separated in two different tetrad frames. One is the standard cartesian (fixed) frame and the second one is the diagonal (rotating) frame. After separating variables in the Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Victor M. Villalba

We study the interplay between basic Dirac operator and transverse Killing and twistor spinors. In order to obtain results for general Riemannian foliations with bundle-like metric we consider transverse Killing spinors that appear as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-03 Adrian Mihai Ionescu , Vladimir Slesar , Mihai Visinescu , Gabriel-Eduard Vilcu

Reporting about the Wigner formalism for describing Dirac spinor structures through a covariant phase-space formulation, the quantum information quantifiers for purity and mutual information involving spin-parity (discrete) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Alex E. Bernardini