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arxiv: 0807.3398 · v1 · submitted 2008-07-22 · 🌀 gr-qc

Torsion-induced spin precession

classification 🌀 gr-qc
keywords space-timespinspinningparticleprecessionfluidspatially-flattorsion
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We investigate the motion of a spinning test particle in a spatially-flat FRW-type space-time in the framework of the Einstein-Cartan theory. The space-time has a torsion arising from a spinning fluid filling the space-time. We show that for spinning particles with nonzero transverse spin components, the torsion induces a precession of particle spin around the direction of the fluid spin. We also show that a charged spinning particle moving in a torsion-less spatially-flat FRW space-time in the presence of a uniform magnetic field undergoes a precession of a different character.

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