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The Dirac Hamiltonian formalism is applied to a system in $(2+1)$-dimensions consisting of a Dirac field $\psi$ minimally coupled to Chern-Simons $U(1)$ and $SO(2,1)$ connections, $A$ and $\omega$, respectively. This theory is connected to…

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A simple semiclassical H\'enon-Heiles model is constructed based on Dirac's time-dependent variational principle. We obtain an effective semiclassical Hamiltonian using a Hatree-type two-body trial wavefunction in the Jackiw-Kerman form.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 C. -L. Ho , C. -I. Chou

We present a non-perturbative, mean-field theory for the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou model with quartic interaction, capturing the quasiperiodic features shown by the system at all energies in the thermodynamic limit. Starting from the true…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Antonio Ponno , Giacomo Gradenigo , Marco Baldovin , Angelo Vulpiani

We describe a procedure for mapping a self-consistent mean-field theory (also known as density functional theory) into a shell model Hamiltonian that includes quadrupole-quadrupole and monopole pairing interactions in a truncated space. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Rodriguez-Guzman , Y. Alhassid , G. F. Bertsch

A completely microscopic beyond mean-field approach has been elaborated to overcome some intrinsic limitations of self-consistent mean-field schemes applied to nuclear systems, such as the incapability to produce some properties of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Brenna , G. Colò , X. Roca-Maza , P. F. Bortignon , K. Moghrabi , M. Grasso

The Bogoliubov-Dirac-Fock (BDF) model allows to describe relativistic electrons interacting with the Dirac sea. It can be seen as a mean-field approximation of Quantum Electro-dynamics (QED) where photons are neglected. This paper treats…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-16 Jérémy Sok

Within the constrained Hartree-Fock (CHF) theory, an analytic condition is derived to estimate whether a concept of the self-consistent mean field is realized or not in level repulsive region. The derived condition states that an iterative…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Lu Guo , Fumihiko Sakata , Enguang Zhao

We study the influence of a strong imaginary vector potential on the quantum mechanics of particles confined to a two-dimensional plane and propagating in a random impurity potential. We show that the wavefunctions of the non-Hermitian…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 Christopher Mudry , B. D. Simons , Alexander Altland

A statistical theory of the mean field is developed. It is based on the proposition that the mean field can be obtained as an energy average. Moreover, it is assumed that the matrix elements of the residual interaction, obtained after the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Caracciolo , A. De Pace , H. Feshbach , A. Molinari

The system describing a single Dirac electron field coupled with classically moving point nuclei is presented and studied. The model is a semi-relativistic extension of corresponding time-dependent one-body Hartree-Fock equation coupled…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Federico Cacciafesta , Anne-Sophie de Suzzoni , Diego Noja

We review a large body of predictions obtained within the framework of relativistic meson theory together with the Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approach to nuclear matter and finite nuclei. The success of this method has been largely…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-12 Herbert Müther , Francesca Sammarruca , Zhongyu Ma

We use our previous idea, in which at first we perform a naive second quantization of both negative and positive energy for the Klein-Gordon equation analogous to the unfilled Dirac sea for fermions, to study as a playground this naive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Holger B. Nielsen , Masao Ninomiya

We develop a statistical theory of the mean field. It is based on the proposition that the mean field can be obtained as an energy average. Moreover, it is assumed that the matrix elements of the residual interaction are random with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Caracciolo , A. De Pace , H. Feshbach , A. Molinari

Dirac equation in Newman-Penrose formalism is comprehensively introduced to prove the non-existence of bound states for {\omega} < me in Schwarzschild geometry. The proof by contradiction is drawn in the context of finding polynomial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-25 Mohamad Shehadeh

We assess the accuracy of finite-temperature mean-field theory using as a standard the Hamiltonian and model space of the shell model Monte Carlo calculations. Two examples are considered: the nucleus $^{162}$Dy, representing a heavy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Y. Alhassid , G. F. Bertsch , C. N. Gilbreth , H. Nakada

We show that the Dirac equation can be rewritten as a relation describing the fundamental symmetry group of special topological manifold corresponding to the Dirac wave field. It leads to unification of the time-space and internal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. A. Olkhov

The classic composite fermion field theory (Ref. 1) builds up an excellent framework to uniformly study important physical objects and globally explain anomalous experimental phenomena in fractional quantum Hall physics while there are also…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-01-20 Yibin Yang , Xi Luo , Yue Yu

In paper within the model with a maximal mass M and with use of anti de Sitter space is considered the Dirac equation properties for a fermion of mass m on the mass surface. The paper shows that free Hamiltonian and Hamiltonian with…

General Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 V. P. Neznamov

The virial and the Hellmann--Feynman theorems for massless Dirac electrons in a solid are derived and analyzed using generalized continuity equations and scaling transformations. Boundary conditions imposed on the wave function in a finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-18 Alexey A. Sokolik , Andrey D. Zabolotskiy , Yurii E. Lozovik

We perform Hartree calculations of symmetric and asymmetric semi-infinite nuclear matter in the framework of relativistic models based on effective hadronic field theories as recently proposed in the literature. In addition to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-12-23 M. Del Estal , M. Centelles , X. Viñas