https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00184-3
Regular Article
Relativistic free fermions in an elastic medium with screw dislocations
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:
14
October
2019
Accepted:
27
October
2019
Published online:
23
January
2020
We study the Dirac equation for free fermions in an elastic medium with a linear topological defect or distortion analogous to a screw dislocation. We obtain its wave functions for free particle and the corresponding energy spectrum, as well as the fermionic current density. Furthermore, we provide the energy–momentum density for four well-known forms: Einstein, Landau–Lifshitz, Papapetrou and Bergmann–Thomson.
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