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We present a novel approach for the construction of interior solutions for the Kerr metric, extending J. Ovalle's foundational work through ellipsoidal coordinate transformations. By deriving a physically plausible interior solution that…

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Interest on 2 + 1 dimensional electron systems has increased considerably after the realization of novel properties of graphene sheets, in which the behaviour of electrons is effectively described by relativistic equations. Having this fact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-19 Mehmet Ali Olpak

Dirac particles have been notoriously difficult to confine. Implementing a curved space Dirac equation solver based on the quantum Lattice Boltzmann method, we show that curvature in a 2-D space can confine a portion of a charged, mass-less…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Kyriakos Flouris , Miller Mendoza Jimenez , Jens-Daniel Debus , Hans J. Herrmann

We consider a fermion in the presence of a rotating black hole immersed in a universe with positive cosmological constant. After deriving new formulae for the event, Cauchy and cosmological horizons we adopt the Carter tetrad to separate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-13 D. Batic , K. Morgan , M. Nowakowski , S. Bravo Medina

We study Dirac equation in Kerr-Taub-NUT spacetime. We use Boyer-Lindquist coordinates and separate the resulting equations into radial and angular parts. We get some exact analytical solutions of the angular equations for some special…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Hakan Cebeci , Nulifer Ozdemir

Dirac equation is solved in the near horizon limit geometry of an extreme Kerr black hole. We decouple equations first as usual, into an axial and angular part. The axial equation turns out to be independent of the mass and is solved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Sakalli , M. Halilsoy

The semiclassical regime of 2D static Dirac matter is obtained from the Dirac equation in curved space-time. To simplify the formulation, the Cartesian space-time geometry parametrization is transformed to isothermal coordinates using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 F. Fillion-Gourdeau , E. Lorin , S. Maclean

In asymmetrically warped spacetimes different warp factors are assigned to space and to time. We discuss causality properties of these warped brane universes and argue that scenarios with two extra dimensions may allow for timelike curves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-02 Heinrich Päs , Sandip Pakvasa , James Dent , Thomas J. Weiler

Dirac operators on curved space-times are introduced with the help of a new point-view that observers have to be included in the formulation of natural laws. The class of Dirac operators are Lorentz invariant in the sense that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Zhongmin Qian

Black-hole spacetimes are known to possess closed light rings. We here present a remarkably compact theorem which reveals the physically intriguing fact that these unique null circular geodesics provide the {\it fastest} way, as measured by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-27 Shahar Hod

A new approximate metric representing the spacetime of a rotating deformed body is obtained by perturbing the Kerr metric to include til the second order of the quadrupole moment. It has a simple form, because is Kerr-like. Its Taylor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-30 Francisco Frutos-Alfaro

In this article we investigate and solve exactly the modified Dirac oscillator in curved spacetime with spin and pseudospin symmetries through an algebraic approach. By focusing on the radial part of this problem, we use the Schr\"odinger…

An effective Lagrangian approach, partly inspired by Quantum Loop Cosmology (QLC), is presented and formulated in a non flat FLRW space-times, making use of modified gravitational models. The models considered are non generic, and their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-15 Alessandro Casalino , Lorenzo Sebastiani , Luciano Vanzo , Sergio Zerbini

In this paper, we analyze Dirac fermions in G\"odel-type background space-times with torsion. We also consider the G\"odel-type spacetimes embedded in a topological defect background. We show that relativistic bound states solutions to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-16 G. Q. Garcia , J. R. de S. Oliveira , K. Bakke , C. Furtado

One of the unsolved issues in the quantum gravity comes from the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, which is second order functional derivative equation. In this paper, we introduce a new method to solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. Usually one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-27 Shintaro Sawayama

It is shown that in 2+1 dimensions the Fermi-Walker gauge allows the general solution of the problem of determining the metric from the sources in terms of simple quadratures. This technique is used to solve the problem of the occurrence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Menotti , D. Seminara

The time-dependent Dirac equation is solved using the three-dimensional Finite Difference-Time Domain (FDTD) method. The dynamics of the electron wave packet in a scalar potential is studied in the arrangements associated with the Klein…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-26 Neven Simicevic

A discrete-time Quantum Walk (QW) is essentially an operator driving the evolution of a single particle on the lattice, through local unitaries. Some QWs admit a continuum limit, leading to familiar PDEs (e.g. the Dirac equation). Recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Pablo Arrighi , Stefano Facchini

The goal of this work is to extend Dirac-type tensor equations to a curved space. We take four 1-forms (a tetrad) as a unique structure, which determines a geometry of space-time.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 N. G. Marchuk

A new, second-order solution in curvilinear coordinates is introduced for the relative motion of two spacecraft on eccentric orbits. The second-order equations for unperturbed orbits are derived in spherical coordinates with true anomaly as…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Matthew Willis , Kyle T. Alfriend , Simone D'Amico