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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Bernard S. Kay

Starting from an action that describes a Dirac fermion, we propose and analyze a model based on a low-relativistic Pauli equation coupled to a torsion-like term to study Spin Hall Effect (SHE). We point out a very particular connection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-26 C. F. L. Godinho , J. A. Helayël Neto

We consider a classical Dirac field in flat Minkowski spacetime. We perform a Gordon decomposition of its canonical energy-momentum and spin currents, respectively. Thereby we find for each of these currents a convective and a polarization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-15 F. W. Hehl , A. Macías , E. W. Mielke , Yu. N. Obukhov

We generalize Einstein's General Relativity (GR) by assuming that all matter (including macro-objects) has quantum effects. An appropriate theory to fulfill this task is Gauge Theory Gravity (GTG) developed by the Cambridge group. GTG is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Da-Ming Chen

The semiclassical approximation for the Hamiltonian of Dirac particles interacting with an arbitrary gravitational field is investigated. The time dependence of the metrics leads to new contributions to the in-band energy operator in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-19 Pierre Gosselin , Herve Mohrbach

We consider a quantum field theory on a spherically symmetric quantum space time described by loop quantum gravity. The spin network description of space time in such a theory leads to equations for the quantum field that are discrete. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-02 Rodolfo Gambini , Jorge Pullin

We address the problem of quantum particles moving on a manifold characterised by the presence of torsion along a preferential axis. In fact, such a torsion may be taylored by the presence of a single screw dislocation, whose Burgers vector…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Sébastien Fumeron , Bertrand Berche , Ernesto Medina , Fernando A. N. Santos , Fernando Moraes

In this paper we consider the Dirac spinor field in interaction with a background of electrodynamics and torsion-gravity; by performing the polar reduction we acquire the possibility to introduce a new set of objects that have the…

General Physics · Physics 2019-01-14 Luca Fabbri

Recently, many unexpected fine structures in electric, magnetic, and thermoelectric responses at extremely magnetic fields in topological materials have attracted tremendous interest. We propose a new mechanism of quantum oscillation beyond…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 C. M. Wang , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

The covariance of loop quantum gravity studies of spherically symmetric space-times has recently been questioned. This is a reasonable worry, given that they are formulated in terms of slicing-dependent variables. We show explicitly that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-21 Rodolfo Gambini , Javier Olmedo , Jorge Pullin

Electron systems that possess light-like dispersion relations or the conical Dirac spectrum, such as graphene and bismuth, have recently been shown to harbor unusual collective states in high magnetic fields. Such states are possible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-08 D. Hsieh , Y. Xia , D. Qian , L. Wray , J. H. Dil , F. Meier , L. Patthey , J. Osterwalder , A. V. Fedorov , H. Lin , A. Bansil , D. Grauer , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

In this work, we investigate the influence of torsion, Aharonov-Bohm flux, and external magnetic fields on the linear and nonlinear optical properties of a confined quantum system. The confinement potential is not assumed a priori, but…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-28 Carlos Magno O. Pereira , Edilberto O. Silva

In this article we present the algebraic rearrangement, or matrix inversion of the Dirac equation in a curved Riemann-Cartan spacetime with torsion, the presence of non-vanishing torsion is implied by the intrinsic spin-1/2 of the Dirac…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-18 Shaun Inglis , Peter Jarvis

Minimal coupling of a Dirac field to gravity with the most general non-propagating torsion is considered in (1+2)-dimensions. The field equations are obtained from a lagrangian by a variational principle. The space-time torsion is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-24 Özcan Sert , Muzaffer Adak

A review is given of a relativistic non-Abelian gauge theory approach to the physics of spin-charge separation in doped quantum antiferromagnetic planar systems, proposed recently by the authors. Emphasis is put on the effects of constant…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 K. Farakos , N. E. Mavromatos

In this article, we study topological and noninertial effects on the motion of the two-dimensional Dirac oscillator in the presence of a uniform magnetic field and the Aharonov-Bohm potential. We obtain the Dirac equation that describes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-24 Márcio M. Cunha , Henrique S. Dias , Edilberto O. Silva

Geometrical analysis of a new type of Unified Field Theoretical models follow the guidelines of previous works of the authors is presented. These new unified theoretical models are characterized by an underlying hypercomplex structure, zero…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-10 Diego Julio Cirilo-Lombardo

Dirac equation is written in a non-Riemannian spacetime with torsion and non-metricity by lifting the connection from the tangent bundle to the spinor bundle over spacetime. Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation of the Dirac equation in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Adak , T. Dereli , L. H. Ryder

Effective gravity and gauge fields are emergent properties intrinsic for low-energy quasiparticles in topological semimetals. Here, taking two Dirac semimetals as examples, we demonstrate that applied lattice strain can generate warped…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-11 Shan Guan , Zhi-Ming Yu , Ying Liu , Gui-Bin Liu , Liang Dong , Yunhao Lu , Yugui Yao , Shengyuan A. Yang

Motivated by quantum quenches in spin chains, a one-dimensional toy-model of fermionic particles evolving in imaginary-time from a domain-wall initial state is solved. The main interest of this toy-model is that it exhibits the arctic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-10 Nicolas Allegra , Jérôme Dubail , Jean-Marie Stéphan , Jacopo Viti