Wigner rotation via Fermi–Walker transport and relativistic EPR correlations in the Schwarzschild spacetime

Abstract

The Wigner rotation angle for a particle in a circular motion in the Schwarzschild spacetime is obtained via the Fermi–Walker transport of spinors. Then, by applying the Wentzel, Kramers, Brillouin (WKB) approximation, a possible application of the Fermi–Walker transport of spinors in relativistic Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen (EPR) correlations is discussed, where it is shown that the spins of the correlated particle undergo a precession in an analogous way to that obtained by Terashima and Ueda [H. Terashima and M. Ueda, Phys. Rev. A 69, 032113 (2004)] via the application of successive infinitesimal Lorentz transformations. Moreover, from the WKB approach, it is also shown that the degree of violation of the Bell inequality depends on the Wigner rotation angle obtained via the Fermi–Walker transport. Finally, the relativistic effects from the geometry of the spacetime and the accelerated motion of the correlated particles is discussed in the nonrelativistic limit.