Dirac particles in a gravitational shock wave

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AAC144MaRDI QIDQ3177428zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Peter Collas, David Klein

Publication date 25 July 2018

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

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)

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.

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