General-relativistic wave–particle duality with torsion

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AD1FCBarXiv2211.03234WikidataQ129798855 ScholiaQ129798855MaRDI QIDQ6153387FDOQ6153387

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Publication date: 19 March 2024

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

Abstract: We propose that the four-velocity of a Dirac particle is related to its relativistic wave function by $$. We associate the four-momentum of a spinor with a generator of translation, given by a covariant derivative. We associate the intrinsic angular momentum four-tensor of a spinor with a generator of rotation in the spinor representation of the Lorentz group. We use the covariant conservation laws for the spin and energy$-$momentum tensors for a spinor field in the presence of the Einstein$-$Cartan torsion to show that if the wave satisfies the Dirac equation, then the four-velocity, four-momentum, and spin four-tensor satisfy the classical Mathisson$-$Papapetrou equations of motion. We show that these equations reduce to the geodesic equation of motion. Consequently, the motion of a particle guided by the four-velocity in the pilot-wave quantum mechanics coincides with the geodesic motion of the particle determined by the geometry of spacetime, representing a relativistic wave$-$particle duality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03234

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein-Cartan theoryquantum mechanicstorsionspinorwave-particle dualitypilot waveMathisson-Papapetrou equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Alternative quantum mechanics (including hidden variables, etc.) (81Q65) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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• Classical characters of spinor fields in torsion gravity

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