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DiracBilinears.jl: A package for computing Dirac bilinears in solids

Materials Science 2025-10-07 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Computational Physics

Abstract

DiracBilinears.jl is a Julia package for computing Dirac bilinears, which are fundamental physical quantities of electrons in relativistic quantum theory, using first-principles calculations for solids. In relativistic quantum theory, 16 independent bilinears can be defined using the four-component Dirac field. We take the non-relativistic limit for the bilinears, which corresponds to the 1/m1/m expansion, and focus on the low-energy physics typically considered in condensed matter physics. This package can evaluate the spatial distributions and Wannier matrix elements of the Dirac bilinears in solids quantitatively by connecting to the external first-principles calculation packages, including Quantum ESPRESSO, Wannier90, and wan2respack.

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@article{arxiv.2503.11039,
  title  = {DiracBilinears.jl: A package for computing Dirac bilinears in solids},
  author = {Tatsuya Miki and Hsiao-Yi Chen and Takashi Koretsune and Yusuke Nomura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.11039},
  year   = {2025}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures

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