Relativistic quantum bouncing particles in a homogeneous gravitational field

DOI10.1142/S021827182150098XzbMATH Open1490.83031arXiv2005.13264MaRDI QIDQ5068341FDOQ5068341

Authors: Ar Rohim, Kazushige Ueda, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Shih-Yuin Lin 

Publication date: 6 April 2022

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we study the relativistic effect on the wave functions for a bouncing particle in a gravitational field. Motivated by the equivalence principle, we investigate the Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations in Rindler coordinates with the boundary conditions mimicking a uniformly accelerated mirror in Minkowski space. In the nonrelativistic limit, all these models in the comoving frame reduce to the familiar eigenvalue problem for the Schr"odinger equation with a fixed floor in a linear gravitational potential, as expected. We find that the transition frequency between two energy levels of a bouncing Dirac particle is greater than the counterpart of a Klein-Gordon particle, while both are greater than their nonrelativistic limit. The different corrections to eigen-energies of particles of different nature are associated with the different behaviors of their wave functions around the mirror boundary.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13264

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zbMATH Keywords

neutronpositroniumbouncing particles in a gravitational field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Atomic physics (81V45) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Minkowski geometries in nonlinear incidence geometry (51B20) Special bases (entangled, mutual unbiased, etc.) (81P55)

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