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In this paper the spectral properties of Dirac operators $A_\eta$ with electrostatic $\delta$-shell interactions of constant strength $\eta$ supported on compact smooth surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ are studied. Making use of boundary triple…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Jussi Behrndt , Pavel Exner , Markus Holzmann , Vladimir Lotoreichik

In this paper the two-dimensional Dirac operator with a general hermitian $\delta$-shell interaction supported on a straight line is introduced as a self-adjoint operator and its spectral properties are investigated in detail. In…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Jussi Behrndt , Markus Holzmann , Matěj Tušek

In this paper the spectral and scattering properties of a family of self-adjoint Dirac operators in $L^2(\Omega; \mathbb{C}^4)$, where $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ is either a bounded or an unbounded domain with a compact $C^2$-smooth…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Jussi Behrndt , Markus Holzmann , Albert Mas

In this work we consider the two-dimensional Dirac operator with general local singular interactions supported on a closed curve. A systematic study of the interaction is performed by decomposing it into a linear combination of four…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Biagio Cassano , Vladimir Lotoreichik , Albert Mas , Matěj Tušek

This paper is devoted to the approximation of two and three-dimensional Dirac operators $H_{\widetilde{V} \delta_\Sigma}$ with combinations of electrostatic and Lorentz scalar $\delta$-shell interactions in the norm resolvent sense. Relying…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Jussi Behrndt , Markus Holzmann , Christian Stelzer-Landauer

Under certain hypothesis of smallness of the regular potential $\mathbf{V}$, we prove that the Dirac operator in $\mathbb{R}^3$ coupled with a suitable re-scaling of $\mathbf{V}$ converges in the strong resolvent sense to the Hamiltonian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Albert Mas , Fabio Pizzichillo

We study massless 1-dimensional Dirac-Coulomb Hamiltonians, that is, operators on the half-line of the form $D_{\omega,\lambda}:=\begin{bmatrix}-\frac{\lambda+\omega}{x}&-\partial_x \\ \partial_x & -\frac{\lambda-\omega}{x}\end{bmatrix}$.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-02 Jan Dereziński , Błażej Ruba

We introduced some contact potentials that can be written as a linear combination of the Dirac delta and its first derivative, the $\delta$-$\delta'$ interaction. After a simple general presentation in one dimension, we briefly discuss a…

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

In this note the two dimensional Dirac operator $A_\eta$ with an electrostatic $\delta$-shell interaction of strength $\eta\in\mathbb R$ supported on a straight line is studied. We observe a spectral transition in the sense that for the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-05 Jussi Behrndt , Markus Holzmann , Matěj Tušek

In this note the three dimensional Dirac operator $A_m$ with boundary conditions, which are the analogue of the two dimensional zigzag boundary conditions, is investigated. It is shown that $A_m$ is self-adjoint in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Markus Holzmann

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

We prove essential self-adjointness of Dirac operators with Lorentz scalar potentials which grow sufficiently fast near the boundary $\partial\Omega$ of the spatial domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^d$. On the way, we first consider general…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Gheorghe Nenciu , Irina Nenciu , Ryan Obermeyer

In this article we develop a systematic approach to treat Dirac operators $A_{\eta, \tau, \lambda}$ with singular electrostatic, Lorentz scalar, and anomalous magnetic interactions of strengths $\eta, \tau, \lambda \in \mathbb{R}$,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Jussi Behrndt , Markus Holzmann , Christian Stelzer , Georg Stenzel

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…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Dale Frymark , Markus Holzmann , Vladimir Lotoreichik

The problem of self-adjoint extensions of Dirac-type operators in manifolds with boundaries is analysed. The boundaries might be regular or non-regular. The latter situation includes point-like interactions, also called delta-like…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-29 J. M. Pérez-Pardo

We investigate the properties of self-adjointness of a two-dimensional Dirac operator on an infinite sector with infinite mass boundary conditions and in presence of a Coulomb-type potential with the singularity placed on the vertex. In the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Biagio Cassano , Matteo Gallone , Fabio Pizzichillo

The purpose of this paper is to make an explicit construction of specific self-adjoint extensions of the Dirac Hamiltonian in the presence of a $\delta$-sphere interaction of finite radius. The exact resolvent kernel of the free Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriel Y. H. Avossevou , Jan Govaerts , M. Norbert Hounkonnou

We show that the eigenspaces of the Dirac operator $H=\alpha\cdot (D - A(x)) + m \beta $ at the threshold energies $\pm m$ are coincide with the direct sum of the zero space and the kernel of the Weyl-Dirac operator $\sigma\cdot (D -…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2008-05-28 Tomio Umeda

One dimensional Dirac operators $$ L_{bc}(v) \, y = i \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 0 & -1 \end{pmatrix} \frac{dy}{dx} + v(x) y, \quad y = \begin{pmatrix} y_1 y_2 \end{pmatrix}, \quad x\in[0,\pi],$$ considered with $L^2$-potentials $ v(x) =…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2010-08-25 Plamen Djakov , Boris Mityagin