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Variational (Rayleigh-Ritz) methods are applied to local quantum field theory. For scalar theories the wave functional is parametrized in the form of a superposition of Gaussians and the expectation value of the Hamiltonian is expressed in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 George Tiktopoulos

In this paper we consider the photon vortex beam in the rotating medium, where the rotating velocity acts as an effective vector potential. Using the Riemann-Silberstein vector, we construct the photon wave function. Using the Maxwell…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-15 Jianye Wei , Wei Jia , Xubiao Peng , Qing Zhao

U(4) local transformations on the four Weyl spinors forming the isospin doublet of Dirac fermions are assumed as symmetries of the standard model. With the Lorentz transformations considered simultaneously, the symmetry group is enlarged in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-06 Lu Yang

We solve the one dimensional Feshbach-Villars equation for spin-1/2 particle subjected to a scalar smooth potential. The eight component wave function is given in terms of the hypergeometric functions and via a limiting procedure, the wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-04 A. Bounames , L. Chetouani

The objective of this paper is to derive analytical solutions of fractional order Laplace, Poisson and Helmholtz equations in two variables derived from the corresponding standard equations in two dimensions by replacing the integer order…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-08-11 Ram K. Saxena , Zivorad Tomovski , Trifce Sandev

In this paper using the Clifford bundle formalism we show how starting from the photon concept and its relativistic Hamilton-Jacobi equation (HJE) we immediately get (with a simple hypothesis concerning the form of the photon canonical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Waldyr A. Rodrigues

The Weyl double copy formalism, which relates the Weyl spinor with the square of the field strength, is studied in the context of Hassan-Rosen bigravity for stationary and time-dependent solutions. We consider the dyonic Kerr-Newman-(A)dS…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-03 Hugo García-Compeán , César I. Ramos

We consider the notion of zilch current that was recently discussed in the literature as an alternative helicity measure for photons. Developing this idea, we suggest the generalization of the zilch for the systems of fermions. We start…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Artem Alexandrov , Pavel Mitkin

We study nonlinear magneto-optical responses of metals by a semiclassical Boltzmann equation approach. We derive general formulas for linear and second order nonlinear optical effects in the presence of magnetic fields that include both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Takahiro Morimoto , Shudan Zhong , Joseph Orenstein , Joel E. Moore

Following arXiv:1310.2027 and arXiv:0801.0762, we consider a non-supersymmetric Seiberg duality between electric and magnetic "orientifold field theories". These theories live on brane configurations of type 0' string theory. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Adi Armoni

Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations are the motion equations for relativistic particles with spin 0 (so-called scalar particles) and 1/2 (electron/positron) respectively. For a free particle, the Dirac equation is derived from the Klein-Gordon…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-16 Marie-Noëlle Célérier , Laurent Nottale

Based on the physical interpretation of the photon continuity equation derived in [M. Hawton, Phys. Rev. A 109, 062221 (2024) ] the standard Lagrangian is second quantized to obtain a Lorentz and gauge invariant theory of single photons.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Margaret Hawton

It is known that electric-magnetic duality transformations are symmetries of the generalized Witten-Dijkgraaf-Verlinde-Verlinde (WDVV) equations. In Seiberg-Witten theory the solutions to these equations come in certain sets according to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Luuk Hoevenaars

Under carefully chosen assumptions a single general relativistic scalar field is able to induce MOND-like dynamics in the weak field approximation of the Einstein frame (gauge) and to modify the light cone structure accordingly. This is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-10 Erhard Scholz

We introduce an effective action for non-dissipative magnetohydrodynamics. A crucial guiding principle is the generalized global symmetry of electrodynamics, which naturally leads to introducing a "dual photon" as the degree of freedom…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-13 Paolo Glorioso , Dam Thanh Son

A principle is proposed according to which the dynamics of a quantum particle in a one-dimensional configuration space (OCS) is determined by a variational problem for two functionals: one is based on the mean value of the Hamilton…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 N. L. Chuprikov

Einstein's theory in the vacuum was recently shown to possess an $SO(2)$ duality invariance, which is broken by coupling to matter. Duality invariance can be restored by enlarging the phase space of the theory to allow for violations of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-15 Uri Kol , Shing-Tung Yau

This article presents the generalization of a zero spin hydrogen atom to a relativistic atomic model of hydrogen with dyons using the Klein--Gordon equation. The derivation of the Klein--Gordon equation for the particle of relative motion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-31 Edison Fernando García Veloz , Clara Rojas

A manifestly relativistic-invariant Lellouch-L\"uscher formalism for the three-particle decays is proposed. Similarly to ref.[1], the formalism is based on the use of the non-relativistic effective Lagrangians. Manifest Lorentz invariance…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-02-28 Fabian Müller , Jin-Yi Pang , Akaki Rusetsky , Jia-Jun Wu

We set up a dual variational framework to detect real standing wave solutions of the nonlinear Helmholtz equation $$ -\Delta u-k^2 u =Q(x)|u|^{p-2}u,\qquad u \in W^{2,p}(\mathbb{R}^N) $$ with $N\geq 3$, $\frac{2(N+1)}{(N-1)}<…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Gilles Evequoz , Tobias Weth