https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6830-4
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
The Dirac oscillator in a spinning cosmic string spacetime
1
Faculty of Physics, Shahrood University of Technology, P.O. Box 3619995161-316, Shahrood, Iran
2
Faculté Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6C 4G9, Canada
* e-mail: mdemonti@ualberta.ca
Received:
1
December
2018
Accepted:
1
April
2019
Published online:
6
April
2019
We examine the effects of gravitational fields produced by topological defects on a Dirac field and a Dirac oscillator in a spinning cosmic string spacetime. We obtain the eigenfunctions and the energy levels of the relativistic field in that background and consider the effect of various parameters, such as the frequency of the rotating frame, the oscillator’s frequency, the string density and other quantum numbers.
© The Author(s), 2019