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A rigorous \textit{ab initio} derivation of the (square of) Dirac's equation for a single particle with spin is presented. The general Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the particle expressed in terms of a background Weyl's conformal geometry is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Enrico Santamato

We consider the N=1 supersymmetric kink on a circle, i.e., on a finite interval with boundary or transition conditions which are locally invisible. For Majorana fermions, the single-particle Dirac Hamiltonian as a differential operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Alfred Scharff Goldhaber , Anton Rebhan , Peter van Nieuwenhuizen , Robert Wimmer

We discuss the quantum dynamics of the Dirac fermion particle in a gauge gravitational field. The minimal as well as the Pauli-type nonminimal coupling of a fermion with external fields is studied, bringing into consideration the notions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-02 Yuri N. Obukhov , Alexander J. Silenko , Oleg V. Teryaev

We study the entanglement between two modes of Dirac field in an expanding spacetime characterized by the Robertson-Walker metric. This spacetime model turns out to be asymptotically (in the remote past and far future regions) Minkowskian.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-21 Shahpoor Moradi , Roberto Pierini , Stefano Mancini

We study the minimization problem for eigenvalues of the Dirac operator within a fixed conformal class on a closed spin Riemannian manifold. We establish a criterion for the existence of a minimizer for this variational problem, focusing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Pavel Martynyuk

As a commutative version of the supersymmetric nonlinear sigma model, Dirac-harmonic maps from Riemann surfaces were introduced fifteen years ago. They are critical points of an unbounded conformally invariant functional involving two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Jürgen Jost , Jingyong Zhu

Relations between the Friedmann observables of the expanding Universe and the Dirac observables in the generalized Hamiltonian approach are established for the Friedmann cosmological model of the Universe with the field excitations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Gogilidze , A. M. Khvedelidze , V. V. Papoyan , Yu. G. Palii , V. N. Pervushin

In generic curved spacetimes, the unavailability of a natural choice of vacuum state introduces a serious ambiguity in the Fock quantization of fields. In this review, we study the case of fermions described by a Dirac field in several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-02 Jerónimo Cortez , Beatriz Elizaga Navascués , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán , Santiago Prado , José M. Velhinho

A simple and reliable finite difference approach is presented for solution of the Dirac equation eigenproblem for states confined in rotationally symmetric systems. The method sets the boundary condition for the spinor wave function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 B. Szafran , A. Mrenca-Kolasinska , D. Zebrowski

This work is a continuation of our recent study of non-relativistic charged particles, confined to a sphere enclosing a magnetic dipole at its center. In this sequel, we extend our computations in two significant ways. The first is to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 Jeff Murugan , Jonathan P. Shock , Ruach Pillay Slayen

A relativistic equation is proposed for the bound state of two particles, which is in accord with the boundary condition for the propagation of the negative-energy states and reduces to the (one-body)Dirac equation in the infinite limit of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 Hitoshi Ito

For the weighted Dirac eigenproblem on a compact spin manifold with the chiral boundary condition \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} D\varphi = \lambda f\varphi & \text{in } M, \\ \mathbf{B}\varphi = 0 & \text{on } \partial M,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Mingwei Zhang

Recently, we have constructed the conformal gravity with metric and torsion, finding the gravitational field equations that give the conservation laws and trace condition; in the present paper we apply this theory to the case of the Dirac…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-11 Luca Fabbri

We study the problem of a Dirac field in the background of an Aharonov-Bohm flux string. We exclude the origin by imposing spectral boundary conditions at a finite radius then shrinked to zero. Thus, we obtain a behaviour of eigenfunctions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 C. G. Beneventano , M. De Francia , E. M. Santangelo

Dirac's equation in the field of a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave and constant magnetic field has exact localized non-stationary solutions. The solutions corresponds relativistic fermions only. Among them singular solutions with…

General Physics · Physics 2012-03-27 Boris V. Gisin

The semiclassical limit for Dirac particles interacting with a static gravitational field is investigated. A Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation which diagonalizes at the semiclassical order the Dirac equation for an arbitrary static spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Pierre Gosselin , Alain Bérard , Herve Mohrbach

The "spin-up" and "spin-down" projections of the second order, chiral form of Dirac Theory are shown to fit a superposition of forms predicted in an earlier classical, complex scalar gauge theory (April, 1992 Class. Quantum Grav.). In some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-30 J. E. Rankin

In this paper, we will make an attempt to clarify the relation between three-dimensional euclidean loop quantum gravity with vanishing cosmological constant and quantum field theory in the continuum. We will argue, in particular, that in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-22 Wolfgang Wieland

We study conformal field theory on two-dimensional orbifolds and show this to be an effective way to analyze physical effects of geometric singularities with angular deficits. They are closely related to boundaries and cross caps.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Zheng Yin

We study if there is an opportunity to describe quantum particles in the vicinity of three types of cosmological singularities, big bang-big crunch, big rip and big brake. Writing down the Dirac equation for spinors, and choosing a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-22 Samuel W. P. Oliveira , Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik