Massless spin-1/2 wave propagation in a wormhole background

Authors

  • Jan Tristram Acuña National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Abstract

We address the problem of describing the propagation of a massless spin-1/2 wave on the Ellis wormhole. The dynamics of a spin-1/2 field is governed by the Dirac equation, which can be conveniently expressed in Newman-Penrose form. It has been shown that the radial parts of the spinor components satisfy Schrodinger-like differential equations associated with different barrier potentials, and the angular part corresponds to the spin-weighted spherical harmonics. The transmission coefficient for incoming waves with different frequencies were computed numerically.

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Article ID

SPP2014-PA-25

Section

Poster Session PA

Published

2014-10-17

How to Cite

[1]
JT Acuña, Massless spin-1/2 wave propagation in a wormhole background, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 32, SPP2014-PA-25 (2014). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/1872.