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We investigate the semiclassical dynamics of massless Dirac fermions in 2+1 dimensions in the presence of external electromagnetic fields. By generalizing the $\alpha$ matrices to the spin-$S$ matrices and doing a certain scaling, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Moitri Maiti , R. Shankar

We address the problems of an energy spectrum and backscattering of massive Dirac fermions confined in a cylindrical quantum wire. The Dirac fermions are described by the 3D Dirac equation supplemented by time-reversal-invariant boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-11 V. V. Enaldiev , V. A. Volkov

We consider the Dirac equations in static spherically-symmetric space-times, and we present a type of spinor field whose structure allows the separation of elevation angle and radial coordinate in very general situations. We demonstrate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-14 Roberto Cianci , Stefano Vignolo , Luca Fabbri

The results of a study of Dirac's Hamiltonian for a point electron in the zero-gravity Kerr--Newman spacetime are reported; here, "zero-gravity" means G to 0, where G is Newton's constant of universal gravitation, and the limit is effected…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-22 Michael K. -H. Kiessling , A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh

Some of the well-known effects regarding the vacuum are revisited under the formalism of the imaginary-time field theory. From these effects, they could imply the existence of one thermal vacuum in different circumstances. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-03 Yi-Cheng Huang

By viewing the electron as a wavepacket in the positive energy spectrum of the Dirac equation, we are able to achieve a much clearer understanding of its behavior under weak electromagnetic fields. The intrinsic spin magnetic moment is…

General Physics · Physics 2007-09-11 Chih-Piao Chuu , Ming-Che Chang , Qian Niu

Using a key observation due to Thiemann, a generalized Wick transform is introduced to map the constraint functionals of Riemannian general relativity to those of the Lorentzian theory, including matter sources. This opens up a new avenue…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-06 Abhay Ashtekar

We show that the energy spectrum of the one-dimensional Dirac equation in the presence of a spatial confining point interaction exhibits a resonant behavior when one includes a weak electric field. After solving the Dirac equation in terms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Luis Gonzalez-Diaz , Victor M. Villalba

In this work we study Dirac operators on two-dimensional domains coupled to a magnetic field perpendicular to the plane. We focus on the infinite-mass boundary condition (also called MIT bag condition). In the case of bounded domains, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Jean-Marie Barbaroux , Loïc Le Treust , Nicolas Raymond , Edgardo Stockmeyer

In the present paper, we study the Dirac equation in the background of Minkowski space-time on a light cone. With the help of the coupling of the radial parts, the system of 4 equations is reduced to two different second-order differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Saman Rahmani , Hossein Panahi , Amerne Najafizade

We introduce the Feynman-Kac formula within the deformation quantization program. Constructing on previous work it is shown that, upon a Wick rotation, the ground state energy of any prescribed physical system can be obtained from the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Jasel Berra-Montiel , Hugo Garcia-Compean , Alberto Molgado

The properties of infinite series in the Wick powers of a free field whose two-point correlation function has a singular infrared behavior and does not satisfy the positivity condition are investigated. If these series are defined on an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Smirnov , M. A. Soloviev

In this work, with the help of the quantum hydrodynamic formalism, the gravitational equation associated to the Dirac field is derived. The hydrodynamic representation of the Dirac equation have been generalizaed to the curved space-time in…

General Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Piero Chiarelli

We propose a continuous Wick rotation for Dirac, Majorana and Weyl spinors from Minkowski spacetime to Euclidean space which treats fermions on the same footing as bosons. The result is a recipe to construct a supersymmetric Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Peter van Nieuwenhuizen , Andrew Waldron

Considering the propagation of fields in the spacetime continuum and the well-defined features of fields with finite degrees of freedom, the wave function is expanded in terms of a finite set of basis functions localized in spacetime. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-18 Kimichika Fukushima , Hikaru Sato

We consider the Dirac equation coupled to an external electromagnetic field in curved four-dimensional spacetime with a given timelike worldline $\gamma$ representing a classical clock. We use generalised Fermi normal coordinates in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-27 Ashkan Alibabaei , Philip K. Schwartz , Domenico Giulini

The analytic aspects of the operator realization of Wick power series of infrared singular free fields are considered. Taking advantage of the holomorphy properties of the two-point correlation function and its Hilbert majorant in x-space,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Smirnov , M. A. Soloviev

Using 2 more time variables as the quantum hidden variables, we derive the equation of Dirac field under the principle of classical physics, then we extend our method into the quantum fields with arbitrary spin number. The spin of particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaodong Chen

Recent researches on tilted Dirac cone materials have unveiled an astonishing property, the metric of the spacetime can be altered in these materials by applying a perpendicular electric field. This phenomenon is observed near the Fermi…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-10 Mohammad Amin Rastkhadiv

As examples of models having interesting constraint structures, we derive a quantum mechanical model from the spatial freezing of a well known relativistic field theory - the chiral Schwinger model. We apply the Hamiltonian constraint…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-10 Sudipta Das , Subir Ghosh