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The Dirac equation is used to describe oblique spin-conserving and spin-flip reflections of relativistic electrons from a one-dimensional potential barrier in a vacuum. When an electron hits the barrier from an oblique direction, its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Wlodek Zawadzki , Pawel Pfeffer

The use of neural network parametrizations to represent the ground state in variational Monte Carlo (VMC) calculations has generated intense interest in recent years. However, as we demonstrate in the context of the periodic Heisenberg spin…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-23 Huan Zhang , Robert J. Webber , Michael Lindsey , Timothy C. Berkelbach , Jonathan Weare

We investigate the relativistic effects of a moving particle in the field of a pseudo-harmonic oscillatory ring-shaped potential under the spin and pseudo-spin symmetric Dirac wave equation. We obtain the bound state energy eigenvalue…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Mahdi Eshgh , Hussain Mehraban , Sameer M. Ikhdair

Pseudospin symmetry is a relativistic symmetry of the Dirac Hamiltonian with scalar and vector mean fields equal and opposite in sign. This symmetry imposes constraints on the Dirac eigenfunctions. We examine extensively the Dirac…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 J. N. Ginocchio , A. Leviatan , J. Meng , Shan-Gui Zhou

The spurious states found in numerical implementations of envelope function models for semiconductor heterostructures and nanostructures are artifacts of the use of the centered-difference formula. They are readily removed by employing a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 William R. Frensley , Raja N. Mir

In this work we will treat the spurious eigenvalues obstacle that appears in the computation of the radial Dirac eigenvalue problem using numerical methods. The treatment of the spurious solution is based on applying Petrov-Galerkin finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-14 Hasan Almanasreh

In this paper, we deal with a q-Dirac system. We investigate some spectral properties and the asymptotic behavior of the eigenvalues and the eigenfunctions of this q-Dirac system.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Fatma Hıra

A signature independent formalism is created and utilized to determine the general second-order symmetry operators for Dirac's equation on two-dimensional Lorentzian spin manifolds. The formalism is used to characterize the orthonormal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-16 Alberto Carignano , Lorenzo Fatibene , Raymond G. McLenaghan , Giovanni Rastelli

A formula is given in terms of secondary characteristic classes for the leading order contribution to the spectral flow for a path of twisted Dirac operators on an odd dimensional, Riemannian manifold when the twisting is done by a path of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Clifford Henry Taubes

This paper addresses inverse spectral problems associated with Dirac-type operators with a constant delay, specifically when this delay is less than one-third of the interval length. Our research focuses on eigenvalue behavior and operator…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Nebojša Djurić , Biljana Vojvodić

We perform a one-dimensional complexified quaternionic version of the Dirac equation based on $i$-complex geometry. The problem of the missing complex parameters in Quaternionic Quantum Mechanics with $i$-complex geometry is overcome by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-27 Stefano De Leo , Waldyr A. Rodrigues,

In this paper, we study a Dirac boundary value problem where the operator is considered with a derivative of order $\alpha \in (0, 1]$, known as the $F^{\alpha}$-derivative. We prove some spectral properties of eigenvalues and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-19 F. Ayça Çetinkaya , Gage Plott

The Complex Absorbing Potential (CAP) method is widely used to compute resonances in Quantum Chemistry, both for nonrelativistic and relativistic Hamiltonians. In the semiclassical limit $\hbar \to 0$ we consider resonances near the real…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-08 J. Kungsman , M. Melgaard

We study the (massless) Dirac operator on a 3-sphere equipped with Riemannian metric. For the standard metric the spectrum is known. In particular, the eigenvalues closest to zero are the two double eigenvalues +3/2 and -3/2. Our aim is to…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-10 Yan-Long Fang , Michael Levitin , Dmitri Vassiliev

We numerically find out the spectrum of the $3$ spin $1$ Dirac operators found in~\cite{ApbPP}. We give an analytic and numerical proof that they are unitarily inequivalent. Since these operators come paired with an anticommuting chirality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-08-16 Sanatan Digal , Pramod Padmanabhan

We derive an inequality that relates nodal set and eigenvalues of a class of twisted Dirac operators on closed surfaces and point out how this inequality naturally arises as an eigenvalue estimate for the $\rm Spin^c$ Dirac operator. This…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Volker Branding

We consider introducing the Dirac sea in a quantum cellular automata model of fermions in discrete spacetime which approximates the Dirac equation in the continuum limit. However, if we attempt to fill up the `negative' energy states, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Chaitanya Gupta , Anthony J. Short

The identification of pseudospin symmetry as a relativistic symmetry of the Dirac Hamiltonian is used to explain the structure of radial nodes occurring in pseudospin doublets and to illuminate the special status of nodeless intruder states…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Leviatan , J. N. Ginocchio

In this paper, we consider a discontinuous Dirac operator depending polynomially on the spectral parameter and a finite number of transmission conditions. We get some properties of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions. Then, we investigate some…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-01-21 Yalçın Güldü , Merve Arslantaş

The aim of the lectures is to introduce first-year Ph.D. students and research workers to the theory of the Dirac operator, spinor techniques, and their relevance for the theory of eigenvalues in Riemannian geometry. Topics: differential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Giampiero Esposito