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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…

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We consider the one-parametric family of self-adjoint realizations of the two-dimensional massive Dirac operator with a Lorentz scalar $\delta$-shell interaction of strength $\tau\in\mathbb{R}\setminus\{-2,0,2\}$ supported on a broken line…

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We study the self-adjointness of the two-dimensional Dirac operator coupled with electrostatic and Lorentz scalar shell interactions of constant strength $\varepsilon$ and $\mu$ supported on a closed Lipschitz curve. Namely, we present…

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In the application of potential models, the use of the Dirac equation in central potentials remains of phenomenological interest. The associated set of decoupled second-order ordinary differential equations is here studied by exploiting the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-28 Giampiero Esposito , Pietro Santorelli

We consider a 3-dimensional Dirac operator H_0 with non-constant magnetic field of constant direction, perturbed by a sign-definite matrix-valued potential V decaying fast enough at infinity. Then we determine asymptotics, as the energy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-16 Rafael Tiedra De Aldecoa

The Dirac delta function potential is considered within the real Hilbert space approach for complex wave functions, as well as quaternionic wave functions. As has been previously determined, the real Hilbert space approach enables the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Sergio Giardino

We consider the two-dimensional Dirac operator with Lorentz-scalar $\delta$-shell interactions on each edge of a star-graph. An orthogonal decomposition is performed which shows such an operator is unitarily equivalent to an orthogonal sum…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Dale Frymark , Vladimir Lotoreichik

We investigate the self-adjointness of the two-dimensional Dirac operator $D$, with quantum-dot and Lorentz-scalar $\delta$-shell boundary conditions, on piecewise $C^2$ domains with finitely many corners. For both models, we prove the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Fabio Pizzichillo , Hanne Van Den Bosch

The lattice studies in QCD demonstrate the nontrivial localization behavior of the eigenmodes of the 4D Euclidean Dirac operator considered as Hamiltonian of $4+1$ dimensional disordered system. We use the holographic viewpoint to provide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-04 A. Gorsky , M. Litvinov

We consider the one-dimensional Dirac equation with the most general relativistic contact interaction supported on two points symmetrically located with respect to the origin. In order to determine the shape of the interaction, we use a…

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We study the confinement of charged Dirac particles in 3+1 space-time due to the presence of a constant and tilted magnetic field. We focus on the nature of the solutions of the Dirac equation and on how they depend on the choice of vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-22 Abdulaziz D. Alhaidari , Hocine Bahlouli , Ahmed Jellal

We investigate the planar Dirac equation with the most general time-independent contact (singular) potential supported on a circumference. Taking advantage of the radial symmetry, the problem is effectively reduced to a one-dimensional one…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 J. T. Lunardi , S. Salamanca , J. Negro , L. M. Nieto

Using the variable phase method, we reformulate the Dirac equation governing the charge carriers in graphene into a nonlinear first-order differential equation from which we can treat both confined-state problems in electron waveguides and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 D. A. Stone , C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

The one-dimensional Dirac operator with periodic potential $V=\begin{pmatrix} 0 & \mathcal{P}(x) \\ \mathcal{Q}(x) & 0 \end{pmatrix}$, where $\mathcal{P},\mathcal{Q}\in L^2([0,\pi])$ subject to periodic, antiperiodic or a general strictly…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-04 İlker Arslan

This paper is devoted to mathematical and physical properties of the Dirac operator and spectral geometry. Spin-structures in Lorentzian and Riemannian manifolds, and the global theory of the Dirac operator, are first analyzed. Elliptic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Giampiero Esposito

We study the spectrum of the Dirac operator on hyperbolic manifolds of finite volume. Depending on the spin structure it is either discrete or the whole real line. For link complements in S^3 we give a simple criterion in terms of linking…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christian Baer

We consider the $3-D$ Dirac operator $\mathfrak{D}_{\boldsymbol{A},\Phi ,Q_{\sin }}$ with variable regular magnetic and electrostatic potentials $ \boldsymbol{A}$,$\Phi $ and with singular potentials $Q_{\sin }$ with support on a smooth…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Vladimir Rabinovich

The Dirac equation is used to provide a relativistic calculation of the binding energy of a hydrogen-like atom confined within a penetrable spherical barrier. We take the potential to be Coulombic within the barrier and constant outside the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 J. M. Noon

In this work we prove that the eigenvalues of the $n$-dimensional massive Dirac operator $\mathscr{D}_0 + V$, $n\ge2$, perturbed by a possibly non-Hermitian potential $V$, are localized in the union of two disjoint disks of the complex…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Piero D'Ancona , Luca Fanelli , Nico Michele Schiavone

We study the spectrum and dynamics of a one-dimensional discrete Dirac operator in a random potential obtained by damping an i.i.d. environment with an envelope of type $n^{-\alpha}$ for $\alpha>0$. We recover all the spectral regimes…

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