Motion of Spin-1/2 Particles in External Gravitational and Electromagnetic Fields
| dc.creator | Vokos, Stamatis | |
| dc.date | 1994-09-23 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:20:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:20:33Z | |
| dc.description | (Talk presented at the 7th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Stanford, CA, July 24-30, 1994) We study the semi-classical limit of the solution of the Dirac equation in a background electromagnetic/gravitational plane wave. We show that the exact solution corresponding to an asymptotically fixed incoming momentum satisfies constraints consistent with the classical notion of a spinning particle. In order to further analyze the motion of a spinning particle in this external inhomogeneous field one has to consider wave-packet superpositions of these exact solutions. We are currently investigating the existence of a classical theory of a phenomenological spin tensor which reproduces our quantum-mechanical results. | |
| dc.description | 4 pages, LaTeX, UW/PT-94-10 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9409147 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9409147 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/53986 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Motion of Spin-1/2 Particles in External Gravitational and Electromagnetic Fields | |
| dc.type | text |