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Quantum-mechanical wave equation for a particle with spin 1 is investigated in presence of external magnetic field in spaces with non-Euclidean geometry with constant positive curvature. Separation of the variable is performed; differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 V. V. Kisel , E. M. Ovsiyuk , O. V. Veko , V. M. Red'kov

In this paper, the principles of the general relativity are used to formulate quantum wave equations for spin-0 and spin-1/2 particles. More specifically, the equations are worked in a Schwarzschild-like metric. As a test, the hydrogen atom…

General Physics · Physics 2011-09-13 C. C. Barros

A matter wave propagating through curved spacetime accumulates phase that encodes both geometry and gauge structure. We develop a semiclassical framework for charged spin-$1/2$ matter-wave interferometers based on a WKB expansion of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Nontapat Wanwieng , Apimook Watcharangkool

We reduce Dirac's spinor formalism for a spin 1/2 particle to a complex wavefunction description in curved spacetimes. We consider a localized fermionic particle in curved spacetimes and perform an expansion in terms of the acceleration and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-07 T. Rick Perche , Jonas Neuser

The dynamics of pseudo-classical spinning particles in spacetime of gravitational plane waves of general polarization and harmonic profile is studied. The resulting equations of motion are solved exactly and the results are compared with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Morteza Mohseni

We investigate the dynamics of spin-$\tfrac{1}{2}$ particles that are freely propagating in superposed states in curved spacetime. We first make use of a Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation of the Dirac equation in curved spacetime to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-10 F. Hammad , M. Simard , R. Saadati , A. Landry

The relationship between classical and quantum mechanics is explored in an intuitive manner by the exercise of constructing a wave in association with a classical particle. Using special relativity, the time coordinate in the frame of…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-08 C. L. Herzenberg

The Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations in a semi-infinite lab ($x > 0$), in the background metric $\ds^2 = u^2(x) (-\dt^2 + \dx^2) + \dy^2 + \dz^2$, are investigated. The resulting equations are studied for the special case $ u(x) = 1 + g x$.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Khorrami , M. Alimohammadi , A. Shariati

We calculate Berry's phase when the driving field, to which a spin-1/2 is coupled adiabatically, rather than the familiar classical magnetic field, is a quantum vector operator, of noncommuting, in general, components, e.g., the angular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-14 Pedro Aguilar , Chryssomalis Chryssomalakos , Edgar Guzman

We investigate the curved-spacetime dynamics of charged spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particles minimally coupled to the electromagnetic field and propagating in superposed states of different masses. For that purpose, we make use of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-24 F. Hammad , R. Saadati , M. Simard , S. Novoa-Cattivelli

In this paper, the basic quantum field equations of free particle with 0-spin, 1-spin (for case of massless and mass $>$ 0) and 1/2 spin are derived from Einstein equations under modified Kaluza-Klein metric, it shows that the equations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaodong Chen

We give a geometrical derivation of the Dirac equation by considering a spin-1/2 particle travelling with the speed of light in a cubic spacetime lattice. The mass of the particle acts to flip the multi-component wavefunction at the lattice…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Jack Ng , H. van Dam

We formulate quantum mechanics in spacetimes with real-order fractional geometry and more general factorizable measures. In spacetimes where coordinates and momenta span the whole real line, Heisenberg's principle is proven and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-18 Gianluca Calcagni , Giuseppe Nardelli , Marco Scalisi

We study the dynamics of a particle in continuous time and space, the displacement of which is governed by an internal degree of freedom (spin). In one definite limit, the so-called quantum random walk is recovered but, although quite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Claude Aslangul

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 Dirac equation for massive free electrically neutral spin 1/2 particles in a gravitation field is considered. The secondary quantization procedure is applied to it and the Hilbert space of multiparticle quantum states is constructed.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ruslan Sharipov

We study the general-setting quantum geometric phase acquired by a particle in a vibrating cavity. Solving the two-level theory with the rotating-wave approximation and the SU(2) method, we obtain analytic formulae that give excellent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. W. Yuen , H. T. Fung , K. M. Cheng , M. -C. Chu , K. Colanero

We study the behaviour of spin-half particles in curved space-time. Since Dirac equation gives the dynamics of spin-half particles, we mainly study the Dirac equation in Schwarzschild, Kerr, Reissner-Nordstr\"om geometry. Due to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

The properties of quantum mechanics with a discrete phase space are studied. The minimum uncertainty states are found, and these states become the Gaussian wave packets in the continuum limit. With a suitably chosen Hamiltonian that gives…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Jang Young Bang , Micheal S Berger

I investigate the quantum dynamics of a spin-$1/2$ particle in a static, spherically symmetric Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) black-hole spacetime within the Hamiltonian framework. Starting from the Dirac equation in curved spacetime,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-10 E. Maciel
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