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A unified description of all interactions could be based on a higher-dimensional theory involving only spinor fields. The metric arises as a composite object and the gravitational field equations contain torsion-corrections as compared to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-20 A. Hebecker , C. Wetterich

The consequences of spin-rotation-gravity coupling are worked out for linear gravitational waves. The coupling of helicity of the wave with the rotation of a gravitational-wave antenna is investigated and the resulting modifications in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Jairzinho Ramos , Bahram Mashhoon

The nonlinear Schr\"odinger-Newton equation, a prospective semiclassical alternative to a quantized theory of gravity, predicts a gravitational self-force between the two trajectories corresponding to the two z-spin eigenvalues for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 André Großardt

We analyse the evolution of the rotational type cosmological perturbation in a gravity with general quadratic order gravitational coupling terms. The result is expressed independently of the generalized nature of the gravity theory, and is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 J. Hwang , H. Noh

The Mashhoon rotation-spin coupling is studied by means of the parallelism description of general relativity. The relativistic rotational tetrad is exploited, which results in the Minkowski metric, and the torsion axial-vector and Dirac…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. M. Zhang

Recently, there has been a proposal to test the quantum nature of gravity in the laboratory by witnessing the growth of entanglement between two masses in spatial quantum superpositions. The required superpositions can be created via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Lorenzo Braccini , Martine Schut , Alessio Serafini , Anupam Mazumdar , Sougato Bose

A solution to the gravitational field equations based on a non-symmetric metric tensor is examined. Unlike Einstein's interpretation of electromagnetism, or Moffat's generalized gravity, it is shown that the non-symmetric part of the metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-24 Richard T. Hammond

The general relativistic gravitomagnetic clock effect, in its simplest form, consists of the non-vanishing difference in the orbital periods of two counter-orbiting objects moving in opposite directions along circular orbits lying in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-29 Lorenzo Iorio , Bahram Mashhoon

We show that in the Einstein-Cartan gravity it is possible to obtain a relation between Hubble's expansion and the global rotation (vorticity) of the Universe. Gravitational coupling can be reduced to dimensionless quantity of order unity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Palle

A tensor description of perturbative Einsteinian gravity about an arbitrary background spacetime is developed. By analogy with the covariant laws of electromagnetism in spacetime, gravito-electromagnetic potentials and fields are defined to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Simon J. Clark , Robin W. Tucker

Mass currents in astrophysics generate gravitomagnetic fields of enormous complexity. Gravitomagnetic helicity, in direct analogy with magnetic helicity, is a measure of entwining of the gravitomagnetic field lines. We discuss…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-23 Donato Bini , Bahram Mashhoon , Yuri N. Obukhov

In the context of a gauge theory for the translation group, we have obtained, for a spinless particle, a gravitational analog of the Lorentz force. Then, we have shown that this force equation can be rewritten in terms of magnitudes related…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 V. C. de Andrade , J. G. Pereira

Assuming that the mechanism proposed by Gell-Mann and Hartle works as a mechanism for decoherence and classicalization of the metric field, we formally derive the form of an effective theory for the gravitational field in a semiclassical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 Rosario Martin , Enric Verdaguer

The Stern-Gerlach (SG) experiment is a fundamental experiment for revealing the existence of ``spin''. In such an experiment, beams of silver atoms were sent through inhomogeneous magnetic fields to observe their deflection. Thus, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Jiang-Lin Zhou , Zou-Chen Fu , Choo Hiap Oh , Jing-Ling Chen

The field theoretical description of the general relativity (GR) is further developed. The action for the gravitational field and its sources is given explicitely. The equations of motion and the energy-momentum tensor for the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Babak , L. P. Grishchuk

We investigate a possible unified theory of all interactions which is based only on fundamental spinor fields. The vielbein and metric arise as composite objects. The effective quantum gravitational theory can lead to a modification of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Wetterich

This paper aims at studying the spin once again. The departure point is thus the Stern and Gerlach experimental results that can be described in a coherent way in the frame of quantum mechanics only. Instead, the relativistic mechanics…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Stefan Catheline

Within the framework of linearized Einstein field equations we compute the gravito-magnetic effects on a test particle orbiting a slowly rotating, spherical body with a rotating matter ring fixed to the equatorial plane. Our results show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-25 L. Castaneda , F. Fandino , W. Almonacid , E. Suarez , G. Pinzon

The effect of currents of mass on bending of light rays is considered in the weak field regime. Following Fermat's principle and the standard theory of gravitational lensing, we derive the gravitomagnetic correction to time delay function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Sereno

Descriptions of highly relativistic fermions in a gravitational field in the classical (nonquantum) and quantum approaches are discussed. The results following from the Mathisson-Papapetrou equations for a fast spinning particle in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Roman Plyatsko , Mykola Fenyk