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We provide a limiting absorption principle for self-adjoint realizations of Dirac operators with electrostatic and Lorentz scalar $\delta$-shell interactions supported on regular compact surfaces. Then we show completeness of the wave…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-15 Jussi Behrndt , Markus Holzmann , Andrea Mantile , Andrea Posilicano

We develop an approach to prove self-adjointness of Dirac operators with boundary or transmission conditions at a $\mathcal{C}^2$-compact surface without boundary. To do so we are lead to study the layer potential induced by the Dirac…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos , Luis Vega

Given an open set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$. We deal with the spectral study of Dirac operators of the form $H_{a,\tau}=H+A_{a,\tau}\delta_{\partial\Omega}$, where $H$ is the free Dirac operator in $\mathbb{R}^3$, $A_{a,\tau}$ is a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Badreddine Benhellal

We discuss the spectral properties of three-dimensional Dirac operators with critical combinations of electrostatic and Lorentz scalar shell interactions supported by a compact smooth surface. It turns out that the criticality of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Badreddine Benhellal , Konstantin Pankrashkin

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

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…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Badredine Benhellal , Konstantin Pankrashkin , Mahdi Zreik

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

The self-adjointness of $H+V$ is studied, where $H=-i\alpha\cdot\nabla +m\beta$ is the free Dirac operator in $\R^3$ and $V$ is a measure-valued potential. The potentials $V$ under consideration are given by singular measures with respect…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-24 Naiara Arrizabalaga , Albert Mas , Luis Vega

We show that a Schr\"odinger operator $A_{\delta, \alpha}$ with a $\delta$-interaction of strength $\alpha$ supported on a bounded or unbounded $C^2$-hypersurface $\Sigma \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $d\ge 2$, can be approximated in the norm…

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

In this paper we consider the three-dimensional Schr\"{o}dinger operator with a $\delta$-interaction of strength $\alpha > 0$ supported on an unbounded surface parametrized by the mapping $\mathbb{R}^2\ni x\mapsto (x,\beta f(x))$, where…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Pavel Exner , Sylwia Kondej , Vladimir Lotoreichik

We demonstrate how to approximate one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operators with $\delta$-interaction by a Neumann Laplacian on a narrow waveguide-like domain. Namely, we consider a domain consisting of a straight strip and a small…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Andrii Khrabustovskyi , Olaf Post

An elementary treatment of the Dirac Equation in the presence of a three-dimensional spherically symmetric $\delta (r-r_0)$-potential is presented. We show how to handle the matching conditions in the configuration space, and discuss the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Benguria , H. Castillo , M. Loewe

We investigate the spectral properties of self-adjoint Schr\"odinger operators with attractive $\delta$-interactions of constant strength $\alpha > 0$ supported on conical surfaces in ${\mathbb R}^3$. It is shown that the essential spectrum…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Jussi Behrndt , Pavel Exner , Vladimir Lotoreichik

We study the two-dimensional Dirac operator with an arbitrary combination of electrostatic and Lorentz scalar $\delta$-interactions of constant strengths supported on a smooth closed curve. For any combination of the coupling constants a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Jussi Behrndt , Markus Holzmann , Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos , Konstantin Pankrashkin

We define Dirac operators on $\mathbb{S}^3$ (and $\mathbb{R}^3$) with magnetic fields supported on smooth, oriented links and prove self-adjointness of certain (natural) extensions. We then analyze their spectral properties and show, among…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Fabian Portmann , Jérémy Sok , Jan Philip Solovej

We investigate the on-shell approximation in the context of s-wave scattering for ultracold two-body collisions. Our analysis systematically covers spatial dimensions D=1,2,3 , with the aim of identifying the regimes in which the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-21 Francesco Lorenzi , Luca Salasnich

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

We perform the Dirac quantization of RS fields interacting with a spinor and the first derivative of a pseudoscalar field. We achieve the calculations for two forms of this interaction: first we review the conventional coupling of lowest…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-10-31 D. Badagnani , A. Mariano , C. Barbero

We study Schr\"odinger operators on $\mathbb R^3$ with finitely many concentric spherical $\delta$-shell interactions. The operators are defined by the quadratic form method and are described by continuity across each shell together with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Masahiro Kaminaga

We study two-dimensional Dirac operators with singular interactions of electrostatic and Lorentzscalar type, supported either on a straight line or a circle. For certain critical values of the interaction strengths, the essential spectrum…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-02 William Borrelli , Pietro Carimati , Davide Fermi