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Here I present a new discrete model of quantum mechanics for relativistic 1-electron systems, in which particle movement is described by a directed space-time graph with attached 4-spinors, but without any continuous wave functions. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Koehler

The Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble theory of gravity removes the constraint of general relativity that the affine connection be symmetric by regarding its antisymmetric part, the torsion tensor, as a dynamical variable. The minimal coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-06 Nikodem Poplawski

By noticing the fact that the charged leptons and quarks in the standard model are chirality-based Dirac spinors since their weak interaction violates maximally parity symmetry though they behave as Dirac fermions in electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-12 Yue-Liang Wu

The positive mass theorem in general relativity states that in an asymptotically flat spacetime, if the momentum--energy tensor is divergence-free and satisfies a dominant energy condition, then a total momentum--energy four-vector can be…

General Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Changbiao Wang

The relativistic Dirac equation in four-dimensional spacetime reveals a coherent relation between the dimensions of spacetime and the degrees of freedom of fermionic spinors. A massless Dirac fermion generates new symmetries corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-01 Yue-Liang Wu

All elementary particles in nature can be classified as fermions with half-integer spin and bosons with integer spin. Within quantum electrodynamics (QED), even though the spin of the Dirac particle is well defined, there exist open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Li-Ping Yang , Farhad. Khosravi , Zubin Jacob

A specific class of gauge theories is geometrically described in terms of fermions. In particular, it is shown how the geometrical frame presented naturally includes spontaneous symmetry breaking of Yang-Mills gauge theories without making…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Juergen Tolksdorf , Torsten Thumstaedter

In the free case, it is possible to define quantum fields which describe particles with integer or half-integer spin larger than one. It is shown that particles with integer spin must have Bose statistic and particles with half-integer-spin…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Markus Fierz , Guglielmo Pasa

The suggested model permits to construct gauge-invariant expressions bringing to the masses of all the fermions, included the neutrinos. The model realizes Higgs mechanism. It is based on the presence of non-trivial ground states of a…

General Physics · Physics 2010-05-24 A. V. Serghienko

A microscopic model of the Brout-Englert-Higgs (BEH) mechanism is proposed. Massless fermions and antifermions do not belong to the Fock space with definite particle-number distribution, but belong to a non-Fock space with indefinite one.…

General Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Shun-ichiro Koh

It is usually supposed that the Dirac and radiation equations predict that the phase of a fermion will rotate through half the angle through which the fermion is rotated, which means, via the measured dynamical and geometrical phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sarah B. M. Bell , John P. Cullerne , Bernard M. Diaz

Hamiltonians describing the relativistic quantum dynamics of a particle with an arbitrary spin are shown to exhibit a supersymmetric structure when the even and odd elements of the Hamiltonian commute. For such supersymmetric Hamiltonians…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-07 Georg Junker

Rotating photon gas exhibits a chirality separation along the angular velocity which is manifested through a generation of helicity and zilch currents. In this paper we study this system using the corresponding Wigner function and construct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Xu-Guang Huang , Pavel Mitkin , Andrey V. Sadofyev , Enrico Speranza

We present localized 'particle-like' states composed of a pair of neutral fermions interacting with a scalar Higgs field and the metric of spacetime, extending the Einstein-Dirac formalism introduced by Finster, Smoller, and Yau [Phys. Rev.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-27 Peter E. D. Leith , Alasdair Dorkenoo Leggat , Chris A. Hooley , Keith Horne , David G. Dritschel

In Schwarzschild spacetime, the gravitational spin-orbit couplings of the massless Dirac field and the photon field can be studied in a unified way. In contrary to the previous investigations presented mainly at the quantum-mechanical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-12 Zhi-Yong Wang

The Dirac theory implies the existence of an internal vector space, in addition to spin space. Using Dirac's coupling of variables in internal space to those in physical space, we construct a new configuration structure for particles in the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Janet Pan , Lu Lin

The behaviour of massive fermions is analyzed with scalar and vector potentials. A continuous chiral-conjugation transformation decouples the equation for the upper component of the Dirac spinor provided the vector coupling does not exceed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-18 W M Castilho , A S de Castro

We search a canonical basis of Dirac's observables for the classical Abelian Higgs model with fermions in the case of a trivial U(1) principal bundle. The study of the Gauss law first class constraint shows that the model has two disjoint…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Luca Lusanna , Paolo Valtancoli

In this paper we present the nonlinear quantum theory of X-Ray FEL in a wiggler. We present the solution of the Dirac equation in a space periodic strong magnetic field, which describes the quantum dynamics of a single electron in a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. K. Avetissian , T. R. Hovhannisyan , G. F. Mkrtchian

Effective topological field theories describe the properties of Dirac fermions in the low-energy regime. In this work, we introduce a new emergent gravity model by considering Dirac fermions invariant under local de Sitter transformations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-19 Giandomenico Palumbo