Spin effects and compactification
arXiv:1311.5984 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.041501
Abstract
We consider the dynamics of Dirac particles moving in the curved spaces with one coordinate subjected to compactification and thus interpolating smoothly between three- and two-dimensional spaces. We use the model of compactification, which allows us to perform the exact Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation of the Dirac equation and then to obtain the exact solutions of the equations of motion for momentum and spin in the classical limit. The spin precesses with the variable angular velocity, and a "flick" may appear in the remnant two-dimensional space once or twice during the period. We note an irreversibility in the particle dynamics because the particle can always penetrate from the lower-dimensional region to the higher-dimensional region, but not inversely.
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