Dirac particles in a gravitational shock wave

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AAC144zbMATH Open1391.83038arXiv1801.02756OpenAlexW2784077375WikidataQ125386738 ScholiaQ125386738MaRDI QIDQ3177428FDOQ3177428

Peter Collas, David Klein

Publication date: 25 July 2018

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using the Newman-Penrose formalism we calculate the positive energy momentum eigenstates of the Dirac equation for a plane polarized grav- itational wave pulse. We then consider Dirac particles whose spins are polarized in each orthonormal coordinate direction prior to the arrival of the gravitational wave pulse, and determine how the spins are changed by the pulse after its departure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02756

zbMATH Keywords

exact solutionsDirac equationFermi coordinatesgravitational wavesspin polarization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Gravitational waves (83C35) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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• Global propagation of massive quantum fields in the plane gravitational waves and electromagnetic backgrounds

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