Three-Dimensional Modified Dirac Oscillator in Standard and Generalized Doubly Special Relativity

TL;DR

This paper develops an exactly solvable 3D Dirac oscillator model incorporating Planck-scale deformations from Doubly Special Relativity, revealing how these deformations affect energy spectra and eigenfunctions.

Contribution

It introduces a 3D Dirac oscillator model with DSR deformations, providing explicit solutions and analyzing the impact of quantum number shifts due to Planck-scale effects.

Findings

DSR deformations produce branch-dependent energy shifts.

Eigenfunctions retain oscillator-spinor structure under deformations.

Deformation effects increase with excitation and spin--orbit splitting.

Abstract

% Doubly Special Relativity (DSR) introduces, besides the invariant speed of light $c$, an observer-independent high-energy % scale that deforms relativistic kinematics and can be implemented through modified dispersion relations or effective % wave equations with energy-dependent spatial operators. In this work we develop a three-dimensional, exactly solvable % benchmark for such deformations in the spin-$\tfrac12$ sector: the Dirac oscillator. Following the original % construction of Moshinsky and Szczepaniak, the oscillator is introduced through a linear non-minimal momentum coupling, % which preserves Hermiticity and yields, after decoupling the Dirac equation into large and small components, a % three-dimensional isotropic harmonic-oscillator operator supplemented by a strong spin--orbit term. % We then incorporate Planck-scale deformations in two standard DSR realizations (Amelino--Camelia and % Magueijo--Smolin, characterized by an invariant energy scale $k$) and in a generalized DSR framework based on a % first-order expansion in the Planck length $l_p$. In all cases the bound-state eigenfunctions retain the % oscillator-spinor structure dictated by spherical symmetry, while DSR deforms the algebraic relation between quantum % numbers $(N,j,\ell)$ and the relativistic energy, producing branch-dependent shifts for both particle and antiparticle % solutions. The undeformed limit ($k\to\infty$ or $l_p\to0$) is recovered smoothly and the deformation signal increases % with excitation through the oscillator scale and spin--orbit splitting.