Splitting frequency of the (2+1)-dimensional Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau oscillator in an external magnetic field

Abstract

We revisit the (2+1)-dimensional DKP oscillator in an external magnetic field by means of 4×4 and 6×6 representations of the DKP field, thus obtaining several cases studied in the literature. We found an splitting in the frequency of the DKP oscillator according to the spin projection that arises as an interplay between the oscillator, the external field and the spin, from which the energies and the eigenfunctions are expressed in a unified way. For certain critical values of the magnetic field the oscillation in the components of spin projections -1 and 1 is cancelled. We study the thermodynamics of the canonical ensemble of the vectorial sector, where a phase transition is reported when the cancellation of the oscillation occurs. Thermodynamic potentials converge rapidly to their asymptotical expressions in the high temperature limit with the partition function symmetric under the reversion of the magnetic field.