Dirac fermions in a spinning conical Gödel-type spacetime

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we determine the relativistic and nonrelativistic energy levels for Dirac fermions in a spinning conical Gödel-type spacetime in (2+1)-dimensions, where we work with the Dirac equation in polar coordinates and we use the tetrads formalism. Solving a second-order differential equation for the two components of the Dirac spinor, we obtain a generalized Laguerre equation, and the relativistic energy levels, where such levels are quantized in terms of the quantum numbers n and m j, and explicitly depends on the spin parameter s, spinorial parameter u, curvature and rotation parameters α and β, and on the vorticity parameter Ω. In particular, the quantization is a direct result of the existence of Ω (i.e., Ω acts as a kind of ``external field or potential''). We see that for m j>0, the energy levels do not depend on s and u; however, depend on n, m j, α, and β. In this case, α breaks the degeneracy of the energy levels and such levels can increase infinitely in the limit 4Ωβ/α→1. Already for m j<0, we see that the energy levels depend on s, u and n; however, it no longer depends on m j, α and β. In this case, it is as if the fermion ``lives only in a flat Gödel-type spacetime''. Besides, we also study the low-energy or nonrelativistic limit of the system. In both cases (relativistic and nonrelativistic), we graphically analyze the behavior of energy levels as a function of Ω, α, and β for three different values of n.