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Systematic description of a spin one-half system endowed with magnetic moment or any other two-level system (qubit) interacting with the quantized electromagnetic field is developed. This description exploits a close analogy between a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Tomasz Sowinski

Laboratory optics, typically dealing with monochromatic light beams in a single reference frame, exhibits numerous spin-orbit interaction phenomena due to the coupling between the spin and orbital degrees of freedom of light. Similar…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-18 D. A. Smirnova , V. M. Travin , K. Y. Bliokh , F. Nori

Quantum simulation is a powerful tool to study a variety of problems in physics, ranging from high-energy physics to condensed-matter physics. In this article, we review the recent theoretical and experimental progress in quantum simulation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-28 Dan-Wei Zhang , Zi-Dan Wang , Shi-Liang Zhu

We prove the mathematically rigorous (semi-)classical limit $\hbar \to 0$ of the Dirac equation with time-dependent external electromagnetic field to relativistic Vlasov equations with Lorentz force for electrons and positrons. In this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 François Golse , Nikolai Leopold , Norbert J. Mauser , Jakob Möller , Chiara Saffirio

We present a framework to elucidate the existence of accidental contacts of energy bands, particularly those called Dirac points which are the point contacts with linear energy dispersions in their vicinity. A generalized von-Neumann-Wigner…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Kenichi Asano , Chisa Hotta

We derive a modified non-perturbative Lorentz-Abraham-Dirac equation. It satisfies the proper conservation laws, particularly, it conserves the generalized momentum, the latter property eliminates the symmetry-breaking runaway solution. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-28 Igor V. Sokolov , Natalia M. Naumova , John A. Nees , Gerard A. Mourou , Victor P. Yanovsky

The semiclassical kinetic theory of Dirac particles in the presence of external electromagnetic fields and global rotation is established. To provide the Hamiltonian formulation of Dirac particles a symplectic two-form which is a matrix in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-02 O. F. Dayi , E. Kilincarslan , E. Yunt

We report on some recent work of the authors showing the relations between singular (point) perturbation of the Laplacian and the dynamical system describing a charged point particle interacting with the self-generated radiation field (the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Diego Noja , Andrea Posilicano

The kinetic equation used for the description of Dirac systems does not fully take into account two features that play an important role in the vicinity of the Dirac point: (i) the spin degree of freedom, in particular if the spin-flip…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-19 Oleksiy Kashuba , Björn Trauzettel , Laurens W. Molenkamp

The effect of Rashba spin-orbit interaction and anisotropic strain on the electronic, optical and thermodynamic properties of artificial graphene-like superlattice composed of InAs-GaAs quantum dots has been considered theoretically. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Vram Mughnetsyan , Aram Manaselyan , Manuk Barseghyan , Albert Kirakosyan , David Laroze

Using condition of relativistic invariance, group theory and Clifford algebra the component Lorentz invariance generalized Dirac equation for a particle with arbitrary mass and spin is suggested, where In the case of half-integral spin…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 I. I. Guseinov

In Dirac materials, the low energy excitations obey the relativistic Dirac equation. This dependence implies that the electrons are exposed to strong spin-orbit coupling. Hence, real spin conservation is believed to be violated in Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-27 Vanessa Werner , Björn Trauzettel , Oleksiy Kashuba

It has been shown by Gupta and Padmanabhan that the radiation reaction force of the Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac equation can be obtained by a coordinate transformation from the inertial frame of an accelerating charged particle to that of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 O. Oron , L. P. Horwitz

We study the scattering of an electron in a definite state of spin at an interface of an hybrid system with a Rashba spin-orbit coupling on one side. Out of the normal incidence the double refraction phenomenon appears, with one or two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Marigliano Ramaglia , V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis , C. A. Perroni , F. Ventriglia

Starting from the Dirac-Kohn-Sham equation we derive the relativistic equation of motion of spin angular momentum in a magnetic solid under an external electromagnetic field. This equation of motion can be written in the form of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-20 Ritwik Mondal , Marco Berritta , Peter M. Oppeneer

Rabi oscillations is a key phenomenon among the variety of quantum optical effects that manifests itself in the periodic oscillations of a two-level system between the ground and excited states when interacting with electromagnetic field.…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-22 Denis G. Baranov , Mihail I. Petrov , Alexander E. Krasnok

The relationship between the Dirac and reduced phase space quantizations is investigated for spin models belonging to the class of Hamiltonian systems having no gauge conditions. It is traced out that the two quantization methods may give…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Mikhail S. Plyushchay , Alexander V. Razumov

We consider optical systems where propagation of light can be described by a Dirac-like equation with $PT$-symmetric Hamiltonian. In order to construct exactly solvable configurations, we extend the confluent Crum-Darboux transformation for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-15 Francisco Correa , Vit Jakubsky

The so-called Dirac oscillator was proposed as a modification of the free Dirac equation which reproduces many of the properties of the simple harmonic oscillator but accompanied by a strong spin-orbit coupling term. It has yet to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 C. R. Hagen

In this paper we examine the Casimir effect for charged fields in presence of external magnetic field. We consider scalar field (connected with spinless particles) and the Dirac field (connected with 1/2-spin particles). In both cases we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcin Ostrowski