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Dirac equation in Newman-Penrose formalism is comprehensively introduced to prove the non-existence of bound states for {\omega} < me in Schwarzschild geometry. The proof by contradiction is drawn in the context of finding polynomial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-25 Mohamad Shehadeh

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

We discuss some aspects of the gravitational interaction of the relativistic quantum particles with spin 1/2. The exact Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation is constructed for the Dirac particle coupled to the static spacetime metric. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Yuri N. Obukhov

We consider a spatially homogeneous and isotropic cosmological model where Dirac spinors are coupled to classical gravity. For the Dirac spinors we choose a Hartree-Fock ansatz where all one-particle wave functions are coherent and have the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 Felix Finster , Christian Hainzl

We study the Dirac equation in 3+1 dimensions with a general combination of scalar, vector and tensor interactions with arbitrary strengths, all of them described by central Coulomb potentials acting on a particular plane of motion. For the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 V. B. Mendrot , A. S. de Castro , P. Alberto

We consider the quantum mechanics of Einstein gravity linearised about flat spacetime. The two transverse-traceless components of the metric perturbation are the true physical degrees of freedom. They appear in the quantum theory as free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-15 James B. Hartle , Kristen Schleich

The detailed consideration of the relativistic canonical quantum-mechanical model of an arbitrary spin-multiplet is given. The group-theoretical analysis of the algebra of experimentally observables physical quantities for the spin 1/2…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-29 I. Yu. Krivsky , V. M. Simulik , I. L. Lamer , T. M. Zajac

The Dirac equation is invariant under rotations with a constant frequency and invariable cylindrical radius. 3D transformation for rotating frames is found with help of this invariance. Exact localized solutions of the Dirac equation in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Boris V. Gisin

We discuss the Dirac equation in a curved 5-dimensional spherically symmetric space-time. The angular part of the solutions is thoroughly studied, in a formulation suited for extending to rotating space-times with equal angular momenta. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-29 Y. Brihaye , T. Delsate , N. Sawado , H. Yoshii

An earlier scheme [arXiv:2404.03360], where torsion plays an essential part in a flat spacetime account of fermion spin, is extended to spacetimes with non-zero Riemann curvature. It is found that further essential features of the fermion,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-18 William J. Leigh

We study the behavior of two-dimensional Dirac fermions in the presence of a static long-range-correlated random vector potential. By applying an exact path integral representation for the propagator of a spinor particle we obtain…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 D. V. Khveshchenko , A. G. Yashenkin

We investigate the quantum motion of a neutral Dirac particle bouncing on a mirror in curved spacetime. We consider different geometries: Rindler, Kasner-Taub and Schwarzschild, and show how to solve the Dirac equation by using geometrical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicolas Boulanger , Fabien Buisseret , Philippe Spindel

We propose a regularized lattice model for quantum gravity purely formulated in terms of fermions. The lattice action exhibits local Lorentz symmetry, and the continuum limit is invariant under general coordinate transformations. The metric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 C. Wetterich

Systems of self-gravitating fermions constitute a topic of great interest in astrophysics, due to the wide field of applications. In this paper, we consider the gravitational equilibrium of spherically symmetric Newtonian models of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-01 Marco Merafina , Giuseppe Alberti

Torsion in a 5D spacetime is considered. In this case gravitation is defined by the 5D metric and the torsion. It is conjectured that torsion is connected with a spinor field. In this case Dirac's equation becomes the nonlinear Heisenberg…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Dzhunushaliev V. D

We study fermionic modes localized on the static spherically symmetric self-gravitating non-Abelian monopole in the $SU(2)$ Einstein-Dirac-Yang-Mills-Higgs theory. We consider dependence of the spectral flow on the effective gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-31 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev , Yakov Shnir

We investigate the spin-1/2 relativistic quantum dynamics in the curved space-time generated by a central massive charged object (black hole). This necessitates a study of the coupling of a Dirac particle to the Reissner-Nordstrom…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-01 J. H. Noble , U. D. Jentschura

The article is a natural continuation of our paper {\em Quantum scalar field in FRW Universe with constant electromagnetic background}, Int. J. Mod. Phys. {\bf A12}, 4837 (1997). We generalize the latter consideration to the case of massive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman , A. E. Goncalves

We study the Dirac oscillator for spin-1/2 particles in a spacetime containing a spinning cosmic string endowed with both curvature (disclination) and torsion (screw dislocation). The background geometry includes off-diagonal and is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-29 Abdelmalek Boumali

The equation of the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particles in the Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker spacetime is investigated. The retarded and advanced fundamental solutions to the Dirac operator and generalized Dirac operator as well as the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Karen Yagdjian