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We show that Dirac 4-spinors admit an entirely equivalent formulation in terms of 2-spinors defined over the split-quaternions. In this formalism, a Lorentz transformation is represented as a $2 \times 2$ unitary matrix over the…

General Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Francesco Antonuccio

The Dirac monopole string is specified for de Sitter cosmological model. Dirac equation for spin 1/2 particle in presence of this monopole has been examined on the background of de Sitter space-time in static coordinates. Instead of spinor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-15 V. M. Red'kov , E. M. Ovsiyuk , O. V. Veko

In this note we generalized the Dirac non-linear electrodynamics, by introducing two potentials (namely, the vector potential A and the pseudo-vector potential gamma^5 B of the electromagnetic theory with charges and magnetic monopoles) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 W. A. Rodrigues , Jayme Vaz , Erasmo Recami

Inthispaper,weinvestigatethescatteringtheoryofhalf-spinwavesthroughtheuse of radiation fields. We define the radiation fields for semilinear Dirac equations with spinor null forms and establish a nonlinear isomorphism between the weighted…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Jin Jia , Jiongyue Li

In this paper, we investigate an alternative formulation for spin 3/2 field equation. First we will review equation of motion of Dirac and Maxwell, and then construct the equation for spin 3/2 in the similar fashion. Our method actually a…

General Physics · Physics 2008-03-17 Haryanto M. Siahaan

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

In the context of some deformed canonical commutation relations leading to isotropic nonzero minimal uncertainties in the position coordinates, a Dirac equation is exactly solved for the first time, namely that corresponding to the Dirac…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Quesne , V. M. Tkachuk

When utilizing a cluster decomposible relativistic scattering formalism, it is most convenient that the covariant field equations take on a linear form with respect to the energy and momentum dispersion on the fields in the manner given by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 James Lindesay

Dirac's equation of the electron will be discussed by using quaternions as the basis of a new formalism which seems to be very well adapted to the problem. The transformation properties of the equations as well as the invariant and…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cornelius Lanczos

(Talk presented at the 7th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Stanford, CA, July 24-30, 1994) We study the semi-classical limit of the solution of the Dirac equation in a background electromagnetic/gravitational plane wave. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Stamatis Vokos

In the textbook proofs of Lorentz covariance of the Dirac equation, one treats the wave function as a spinor and gamma matrices as scalars, leading to a quite complicated formalism with several pedagogic drawbacks. As an alternative, I…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 H. Nikolic

A representation of the Lorentz group is given in terms of 4 X 4 matrices defined over a simple non-division algebra. The transformation properties of the corresponding four component spinor are studied, and shown to be equivalent to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Antonuccio

We study configurations consisting of a gravitating spinor field $\psi$ with a nonlinearity of the type $\lambda\left(\bar\psi\psi\right)^2$. To ensure spherical symmetry of the configurations, we use two spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ fields forming a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-19 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev

In this paper, starting from pure group-theoretical point of view, we develop a regular approach to describing particles with different spins in the framework of a theory of scalar fields on the Poincare group. Such fields can be considered…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Gitman , A. L. Shelepin

This paper presents new analytic solutions to the Dirac equation employing a recently introduced method that is based on the formulation of spinorial fields and their driving electromagnetic fields in terms of geometric algebras. A first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Andre G. Campos , Renan Cabrera

Starting with the quaternionic Minkowski space-time and its four-vector representation, a rotational analogue of the quaternionic Dirac equation in the electromagnetic field is developed, which includes not only the energy solutions but…

General Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Shikha Bhatt , B. C. Chanyal

Dirac's oscillator (DO) is one of the most studied systems in the Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and in the physical-mathematics. In particular, we show that this system has an unique property which it has not ever seen in other known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-22 Juan Sebastián Montañez Moyano , Carlos José Quimbay Herrera

The so-called Dirac oscillator was proposed as a modification of the free Dirac equation which reproduces many of the properties of the simple harmonic oscillator but accompanied by a strong spin-orbit coupling term. It has yet to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 C. R. Hagen

It is shown that Maxwell's equation cannot be put into a spinor form that is equivalent to Dirac's equation. First of all, the spinor \psi in the representation \vec{F} = \psi \vec{u} \bar{\psi} of the electromagnetic field bivector depends…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andre Gsponer

In the first part of the paper we give a tensor version of the Dirac equation. In the second part we formulate and analyse a simple model equation which for weak external fields appears to have properties similar to those of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Daniel M. Elton , Dmitri Vassiliev