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A variational method is studied based on the minimum of energy variance. The method is tested on exactly soluble problems in quantum mechanics, and is shown to be a useful tool whenever the properties of states are more relevant than the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 Luca Marotta , Fabio Siringo

The quantum hydrodynamic like equations as a function of two real sets of variables, the 4x4 action matrix and the 4 dimensional wave function modulus vector of the Dirac equation, are derived in the present work. The paper shows that in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-15 Piero Chiarelli

Nonperturbative methods have been well-developed for QED with the so-called t-electric potential steps. In this case a calculation technique is based on the existence of specific exact solutions (in and out solutions) of the Dirac equation.…

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By using the general concepts of special relativity and the requirements of quantum mechanics, Dirac equation is derived and studied. Only elementary knowledge of spin and rotations in quantum mechanics and standard handlings of linear…

General Physics · Physics 2011-10-03 M. De Sanctis

We consider the nonlinear Dirac equations (NLDE's) in 1+1 dimension with scalar-scalar self interaction $\frac{g^2}{\kappa+1} ({\bPsi} \Psi)^{\kappa+1}$ in the presence of various external electromagnetic fields. Starting from the exact…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-03-20 Franz G. Mertens , Niurka R. Quintero , Fred Cooper , Avinash Khare , Avadh Saxena

We deal with direct and inverse problems of the calculus of variations on arbitrary time scales. Firstly, using the Euler-Lagrange equation and the strengthened Legendre condition, we give a general form for a variational functional to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Monika Dryl , Delfim F. M. Torres

Quantum dynamical lower bounds for continuous and discrete one-dimensional Dirac operators are established in terms of transfer matrices. Then such results are applied to various models, including the Bernoulli-Dirac one and, in contrast to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-08-08 Roberto A. Prado , Cesar R. de Oliveira

Some precisions are given about the definition of the Hamiltonian operator H and its transformation properties, for a linear wave equation in a general spacetime. In the presence of time-dependent unitary gauge transformations, H as an…

General Physics · Physics 2016-01-21 Mayeul Arminjon

We study general semilinear scalar-field equations on the real line with variable coefficients in the linear terms. These coefficients are uniformly small, but slowly decaying, perturbations of a constant-coefficient operator. We are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Mashael Alammari , Stanley Snelson

It is shown that in the case of the spherically symmetric static backgrounds there is a gauge in which the Dirac equation is manifestly covariant under rotations. This allows us to separate the spherical variables like in the flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ion I. Cotaescu

The quantum electrodynamics in presence of background external fields is developed. Modern methods of local quantum physics allow to formulate the theory on arbitrarily strong possibly time-dependent external fields. Non-linear observables…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 P. Marecki

This article develops a variational formulation for the relativistic Klein-Gordon equation. The main results are obtained through an extension of the classical mechanics approach to a more general context, which in some sense, includes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-17 Fabio Botelho

We prove existence of radially symmetric solutions and validity of Euler-Lagrange necessary conditions for a class of variational problems such that neither direct methods nor indirect methods of Calculus of Variations apply. We obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Graziano Crasta , Annalisa Malusa

We investigate nonlinear Dirac equations on a periodic quantum graph $G$ and develop a variational approach to the existence and multiplicity of bound states. After introducing the Dirac operator on $G$ with a $\mathbb Z^{d}$-periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Zhipeng Yang , Ling Zhu

By means of variational methods we investigate existence, non-existence as well as regularity of weak solutions for a system of nonlocal equations involving the fractional laplacian operator and with nonlinearity reaching the critical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-24 Luiz Faria , Olimpio Miyagaki , Fabio Pereira , Marco Squassina , Chengxiang Zhang

In this paper we consider the problem of the occurrence of spurious modes when computing the eigenvalues of Dirac operators, with the motivation to describe relativistic electrons in an atom or a molecule. We present recent mathematical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Mathieu Lewin , Eric Séré

In this study, we investigate the Spectrum Zero Problem of nonlinear Dirac equations with a focus on the behavior of zero at the boundaries of the spectral gap. We introduce a nonlinear particle-antiparticle interaction and demonstrate that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Qi Guo , Yuanyuan Ke , Bernhard Ruf

We prove that for the radial Dirac equation with Coulomb-type potential the generalized dynamical scattering operator coincides with the corresponding generalized stationary scattering operator. This fact is a quantum mechanical analogue of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Lev Sakhnovich

Computational methods are indispensable to study the quantum dynamics of relativistic light-matter interactions in parameter regimes where analytical methods become inapplicable. We present numerical methods for solving the time-dependent…

Covergent eigensolutions of the Dirac Equation for a relativistic electron in an external Coulomb potential are obtained using the Lanczos Algorithm. A tri-diagonal matrix representation of the Dirac Hamiltonian operator is constructed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-06-18 R. C. Andrew , H. G. Miller , G. D. Yen