Landau levels in a gravitational field: The Levi-Civita and Kerr spacetimes case

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Landau levels in a gravitational field: The Levi-Civita and Kerr spacetimes case
المؤلفون: Hammad, Fayçal, Landry, Alexandre
المصدر: Eur. Phys. J. Plus 135, 90 (2020)
سنة النشر: 2019
المجموعة: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Quantum Physics
مصطلحات موضوعية: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Quantum Physics
الوصف: We have recently found that the gravitational field of a static spherical mass removes the Landau degeneracy of the energy levels of a particle moving around the mass inside a magnetic field by splitting the energy of the Landau orbitals. In this paper we present the second part of our investigation of the effect of gravity on Landau levels. We examine the effect of the gravitational fields created by an infinitely long massive cylinder and a rotating spherical mass. In both cases, we show that the degeneracy is again removed thanks to the splitting of the particle's orbitals. The first case would constitute an experimental test - which is quantum mechanical in nature - of the gravitational field of a cylinder. The approach relies on the Newtonian approximation of the gravitational potential created by a cylinder but, in view of self-consistency and for future higher-order approximations, the formalism is based on the full Levi-Civita metric. The second case opens up the possibility for a novel quantum mechanical test of the well-known rotational frame-dragging effect of general relativity.
Comment: 35 Pages. References, corrections and improvements added. Accepted version for publication in EPJP
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00108-1
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01899
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1910.01899
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00108-1