Equal-time kinetic equations in a rotational field
Abstract
We investigate quantum kinetic theory for a massive fermion system under a rotational field. From the Dirac equation in curved space we derive the complete set of kinetic equations for the spin components of the covariant and equal-time Wigner functions. While the particles are no longer on a mass shell in general case due to the rotation-spin coupling, there are always only two independent components, which can be taken as the number and spin densities. With the help from the off-shell constraint we obtain the closed transport equations for the two independent components in classical limit and at quantum level. The classical rotation-orbital coupling controls the dynamical evolution of the number density, but the quantum rotation-spin coupling explicitly changes the spin density.
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@article{arxiv.2101.07596,
title = {Equal-time kinetic equations in a rotational field},
author = {Shile Chen and Ziyue Wang and Pengfei Zhuang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.07596},
year = {2022}
}
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12 pages