Spontaneous growth of spinor fields in gravity
arXiv:1804.00594 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.98.044011
Abstract
We show that spinor fields nonminimally coupled to gravity can grow spontaneously in the presence of matter. We name this phenomenon spontaneous spinorization after the spontaneous scalarization scenario in scalar-tensor theories. Underlying reason for the growth of the spinor is an instability similar to the tachyon of spontaneous scalarization. We first present the structure of a tachyonic Dirac equation, and incorporate it into the matter coupling in gravity. This causes the zero-spinor solution to be unstable and leads to spontaneous growth. We investigate the behavior of the resulting theory for a spherically symmetric neutron star that has grown a spinor cloud. Spontaneous spinorization has the potential to lead to order-of-unity deviations from general relativity in strong fields in a similar manner to its close relative spontaneous scalarization. This makes the theory especially relevant to gravitational wave science and neutron star astrophysics.
arXiv commentThis version incorporates the corrections due to some missing terms in the equations which were published in the erratum at 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.029903. Conclusions are unchanged
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