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In this paper, we study the influence of topological and noninertial effects on a Dirac particle confined in an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring. Next, we explicitly determine the Dirac spinor and the energy spectrum for the relativistic bound…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 R. R. S. Oliveira

The Dirac equation is used to describe oblique spin-conserving and spin-flip reflections of relativistic electrons from a one-dimensional potential barrier in a vacuum. When an electron hits the barrier from an oblique direction, its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Wlodek Zawadzki , Pawel Pfeffer

We show that an electric field applied to a strained topological Dirac semimetal, such as Na3Bi and Cd3As2, induces a spin Hall current that is quadratic in the electric field. By regarding the strain as an effective "axial magnetic field"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-13 Yasufumi Araki

Stimulated generally by recent interest in the novel spin Hall effect, the nonrelativistic quantum mechanical conserved currents, taken into account of spin-orbit coupling, are rigorously formulated based on the symmetries of system and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Yong Wang , Ke Xia , Zhao-Bin Su , Zhongshui Ma

Solution of the Dirac equation predicts that when an electron with non-zero orbital angular momentum propagates in a cylindrically symmetric potential, its spin and orbital degrees of freedom interact, causing the electron's phase velocity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-23 C. C. Leary , D. Reeb , M. G. Raymer

New conserved spin and orbital angular momentum operators of Dirac's theory on spatially flat FLRW spacetimes are proposed generalizing thus recent results concerning the role of Pryce's spin operator in the flat case [I. I. Cot\u aescu,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-14 Ion I. Cotaescu

A neo-classical relativistic mechanics theory is presented where the spin of an electron is a natural part of its space-time path as a point particle. The fourth-order equation of motion corresponds to the same Lagrangian function in proper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 James L. Beck

The influence of acceleration and rotation on spintronic applications is theoretically investigated. In our formulation, considering a Dirac particle in a non-inertial frame, different spin related aspects are studied. The spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Debashree Chowdhury , B. Basu

We consider properties of a two-dimensional electron system in a random magnetic field. It is assumed that the magnetic field not only influences orbital electron motion but also acts on the electron spin. For calculations, we suggest a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kazutaka Takahashi , K. B. Efetov

A compelling feature of relativistic mean-field phenomenology has been the reproduction of spin-orbit splittings in finite nuclei after fitting only to equilibrium properties of infinite nuclear matter. This successful result occurs when…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 R. J. Furnstahl , John J. Rusnak , Brian D. Serot

A non-linear non-perturbative relativistic atomic theory introduces spin in the dynamics of particle motion. The resulting energy levels of Hydrogen atom are exactly same as the Dirac theory. The theory accounts for the energy due to…

General Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Vikram H. Zaveri

Background: The isotropic harmonic oscillator supplemented by a strong spin-orbit interaction has been the cornerstone of nuclear structure since its inception more than seven decades ago. In this paper we introduce---or rather…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-11 Junjie Yang , J. Piekarewicz

The spectral torsion is defined by three vector fields and Dirac operators and the noncommutative residue. Motivated by the spectral torsion and the one form rescaled Dirac operator, we give some new spectral torsion which is the extension…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Jian Wang , Yong Wang

In the framework of spacetime with torsion and without curvature, the Dirac particle spin precession in the rotational system is studied. We write out the equivalent tetrad of rotating frame, in the polar coordinate system, through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 C. M. Zhang

The topological force and torque are investigated in the systems with spin-orbit coupling. Our results show that the topological force and torque appears as a pure relativistic quantum effect in an electromagnetic field. The origin of both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. J. Huang , R. Qi , Y. D. Li , W. M. Liu

We have studied a relativistically covariant Stern-Gerlach (SG) experiment for a relativistic spin and a Dirac spin. We have obtained the relativistic spin in an arbitrary frame by using the classical spin dipole tensor, which gives the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-04 Taeseung Choi , Yeong Deok Han

The semiclassical limit for Dirac particles interacting with a static gravitational field is investigated. A Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation which diagonalizes at the semiclassical order the Dirac equation for an arbitrary static spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Pierre Gosselin , Alain Bérard , Herve Mohrbach

The semiclassical Boltzmann transport equation of charged, massive fermions in a rotating frame of reference, in the presence of external electromagnetic fields is solved in the relaxation time approach to establish the distribution…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 O. F. Dayi , E. Yunt

We unveil novel spin-orbit torque mechanisms driven by topological edge states in magnetic graphene-based devices. Within the energy gap, a damping-like torque plateau emerges within the quantum anomalous Hall phase upon breaking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Joaquín Medina Dueñas , José H. García , Stephan Roche

A generalized relativistic harmonic oscillator for spin 1/2 particles is studied. The Dirac Hamiltonian contains a scalar $S$ and a vector $V$ quadratic potentials in the radial coordinate, as well as a tensor potential $U$ linear in $r$.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Lisboa , M. Malheiro , A. S. de Castro , P. Alberto , M. Fiolhais