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We study vacuum polarisation effects of a Dirac field coupled to an external scalar field and derive a semi-classical expansion of the regu-larised vacuum energy. The leading order of this expansion is given by a classical formula due to…

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In this note we generalized the Dirac non-linear electrodynamics, by introducing two potentials (namely, the vector potential A and the pseudo-vector potential gamma^5 B of the electromagnetic theory with charges and magnetic monopoles) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 W. A. Rodrigues , Jayme Vaz , Erasmo Recami

We construct a low-energy effective field theory that permits the complete treatment of isospin-breaking effects in nonleptonic weak interactions to next-to-leading order. To this end, we enlarge the chiral Lagrangian describing strong and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Ecker , G. Isidori , G. Mueller , H. Neufeld , A. Pich

We present a method for imposing quasineutrality and, more generally, charge density conservation in the Vlasov-Poisson (VP) and Vlasov-Amp\`ere (VA) systems, which describe electrostatic plasma dynamics, by applying the Dirac theory of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 D. A. Kaltsas , J. W. Burby , P. J. Morrison , E. Tassi , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

Starting from a realistic One-Boson-Exchange model of the nucleon nucleon interaction the relativistic mean field for nucleons is determined within the Dirac Brueckner Hartree Fock approach for finite nuclei. The matrix elements of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Gil , M. Kleinmann , H. M"uther , E. Oset

We consider the electromagnetic field in the presence of polarizable point dipoles. In the corresponding effective Maxwell equation these dipoles are described by three dimensional delta function potentials. We review the approaches…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. Bordag , J. M. Munoz-Castaneda

Based on the original combination of analytical methods, computer algebra tools and numerical calculations, proposed recently in Refs. [1]-[3], the non-perturbative vacuum polarization effects in the 2+1 D supercritical Dirac-Coulomb system…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-08 Andrey Davydov , Konstantin Sveshnikov , Yulia Voronina

We study the many-body theory of graphene Dirac quasiparticles interacting via the long-range Coulomb potential, taking as a starting point the ladder approximation to different vertex functions. We test in this way the low-energy behavior…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Gonzalez

We compute the critical exponents of three-dimensional magnets with strong dipole-dipole interactions using the functional renormalization group (FRG) within the local potential approximation including the wave function renormalization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-15 Georgii Kalagov , Nikita Lebedev

The stability of matter composed of electrons and static nuclei is investigated for a relativistic dynamics for the electrons given by a suitably projected Dirac operator and with Coulomb interactions. In addition there is an arbitrary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 Elliott H. Lieb , Heinz Siedentop , Jan Philip Solovej

Non-Hermitian band descriptions capture how loss, gain, and environmental coupling reshape quantum matter, yet most experimental tests rely on wave-based or dynamical probes. Here we establish a new equilibrium route to exceptional physics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Juan Pablo Esparza , Francisco J. Peña , Patricio Vargas , Vladimir Juričić

We use the Hartree-Fock method to study an interacting one-dimensional electron system on a finite wire, partially depleted at the center by a smooth potential barrier. A uniform one-Tesla Zeeman field is applied throughout the system. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 Jiang Qian , Bertrand I. Halperin

Dirac equation for the finite dipole potential is solved by the method of the join of the asymptotics. The formulas for the near continuum state energy term of a relativistic electron-dipole system are obtained analytically. Two cases are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 V. I. Matveev , M. M. Musakhanov , D. U. Matrasulov

We consider the Dirac equation for a finite-size neutron in an external electric field. We explicitly incorporate Dirac-Pauli form factors into the Dirac equation. After a non-relativistic reduction, the Darwin-Foldy term is cancelled by a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 M. Bawin , S. A. Coon

We examine a new class of CPT-even and dimension-five nonminimal interactions between fermions and photons, deprived of higher-order derivatives, yielding electric dipole moment and magnetic dipole moment in the context of the Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-29 J. B. Araujo , Rodolfo Casana , M. M. Ferreira

Total and energy-angle differential probabilities of positrons created in slow collisions of two identical nuclei are calculated within relativistic two-center approach. The time-dependent Dirac equation is solved in the rotating frame…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-10 N. K. Dulaev , D. A. Telnov , V. M. Shabaev , Y. S. Kozhedub , X. Ma , I. A. Maltsev , R. V. Popov , I. I. Tupitsyn

The Bogoliubov-Dirac-Fock (BDF) model is the mean-field approximation of no-photon Quantum Electrodynamics. The present paper is devoted to the study of the minimization of the BDF energy functional under a charge constraint. An associated…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-02-19 Christian Hainzl , Mathieu Lewin , Eric Sere

Classical electromagnetism is linear. However, fields can polarize the vacuum Dirac sea, causing quantum nonlinear electromagnetic phenomena, e.g., scattering and splitting of photons, that occur only in very strong fields found in neutron…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-15 Aydin C. Keser , Yuli Lyanda-Geller , Oleg P. Sushkov

In this brief review, we survey the problem of electrostatic confinement of massless Dirac particles, via a number of exactly solvable one- and two-body models. By considering bound states at zero energy, we present a route to obtain truly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

Instability of electron-positron vacuum in strong electric fields is studied. First, falling to the Coulomb center is discussed at $Z>137/2$ for a spinless boson and at $Z>137$ for electron. Then, focus is concentrated on description of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-04 D. N. Voskresensky