Spin, gravity, and inertia

Details Spin, gravity, and inertia Spin, gravity, and inertia

2000-12-28

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0012102v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.86:192-195,2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Revtex, 12 pages, no figures, accepted in Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.192

The gravitational effects in the relativistic quantum mechanics are investigated. The exact Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation is constructed for the Dirac particle coupled to the static spacetime metric. As a direct application, we analyze the non-relativistic limit of the theory. The new term describing the specific spin (gravitational moment) interaction effect is recovered in the Hamiltonian. The comparison of the true gravitational coupling with the purely inertial case demonstrates that the spin relativistic effects do not violate the equivalence principle for the Dirac fermions.

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