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We consider the classical theory of the Dirac massive particle in the Riemann-Cartan spacetime. We demonstrate that the translational and the Lorentz gravitational moments, obtained by means of the Gordon type decompositions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri N. Obukhov

Zitterbewegung of a Dirac electron is an oscillation between positive and negative energy states, and is thus distinct from the analogous phenomena exhibited by spin half charged particles in electric and magnetic fields. Quantum field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 Basil S. Davis

Radiation from magnetic and electric dipole moments is a key subject in theory of electrodynamics. Although people treat the problem thoroughly in the context of frequency domain, the problem is still not well understood in the context of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 M. S. Mirmoosa , G. A. Ptitcyn , R. Fleury , S. A. Tretyakov

This article investigates some solutions of the time-dependent free Dirac equation. Visualizations of these solutions immediately reveal strange phenomena that are caused by the interference of positive- and negative-energy waves. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bernd Thaller

Representations of the Klein-Gordon and Dirac propagators are determined in a $N$ dimensional conical background for massive fields twisted by an arbitrary angle $2\pi\sigma$. The Dirac propagator is shown to be obtained from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 E. S. Moreira , Jnr.

Maxwell's equations and the Dirac equation are the first-order differential relativistic wave equation for electromagnetic waves and electronic waves respectively. Hence, there is a notable similarity between these two wave equations, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-04 Mingjie Li , S. A. R. Horsley

We analyze the trajectories of a massive particle in one space dimension whose motion is guided by a spin-half wave function that evolves according to the free Dirac equation, with its initial wave function being a Gaussian wave packet with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Kabir Narayanan , Abigail Perryman , A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh

A Lorentz-covariant system of wave equations is formulated for a quantum-mechanical three-body system in one space dimension, comprised of one photon and two identical massive spin one-half Dirac particles, which can be thought of as two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Lawrence Frolov , Samuel E. Leigh , A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh

Spin is a fundamental degree of freedom, whose existence was proven by Dirac for an electron by imposing the relativity to quantum mechanics, leading to the triumph to derive the Dirac equation. Spin of a photon should be linked to…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-23 Shinichi Saito

The effects of the Dirac sea of the nucleons are investigated within a covariant model of the hadronic interaction. We extend the usual Mean Field Approximation and present a procedure to deal with divergences which are proportional to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-18 R. M. Aguirre

Energy-momentum and angular momentum carried by electromagnetic field of two point-like charged particles arbitrarily moving in flat spacetime are presented. Apart from usual contributions to the Noether quantities produced separately by…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-01-07 Yurij Yaremko

We study the Dirac equation in 3+1 dimensions with non-minimal coupling to isotropic radial three-vector potential and in the presence of static electromagnetic potential. The space component of the electromagnetic potential has angular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 A. D. Alhaidari

We investigate torsion and noninertial effects on a spin-$1/2$ quantum particle in the nonrelativistic limit of the Dirac equation. We consider the cosmic dislocation spacetime as a background and show that a rotating system of reference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 K. Bakke

Some strong field effects on test particle motion associated with the propagation of a plane electromagnetic wave in the exact theory of general relativity are investigated. Two different profiles of the associated radiation flux are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Maria Haney , Antonello Ortolan

Starting with the Dirac equation for an electron in a constant electromagnetic background on a noncommutative (NC) plane, we obtain a gauge invariant description of the system. Surprisingly, the dynamics of the system is dictated by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-27 Aslam Halder , Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Anirban Saha

In this manuscript, we study the relativistic quantum mechanics of an electron in external fields in the spinning cosmic string spacetime. We obtain the Dirac equation, write the first and second-order equations from it, and then we solve…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-12 Márcio M. Cunha , Edilberto O. Silva

Solitary waves of nonlinear Dirac, Maxwell-Dirac and Klein-Gordon-Dirac equations are considered. We prove that the energy-momentum relation for solitary waves coincides with the Einstein energy-momentum relation for point particles.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 T. V. Dudnikova

Expanding the ordinary Dirac's equation in quaternionic form yields Maxwell-like field equations. As in the Maxwell's formulation, the particle fields are represented by a scalar, $\psi_0$ and a vector $\vec{\psi}$. The analogy with…

General Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 A. I. Arbab

Earlier we have shown that interacting electron-positron and electromagnetic fields can be considered as a certain microscopic distortion of pseudo-Euclidean properties of the Minkovsky 4-space-time. The known Dirac and Maxwell equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 O. A. Olkhov

In this paper we consider some new classical effects obtained for a planar electrodynamics with the presence of a higher order derivatives term. The model can be interpreted as a kind of extension for the $3d$ Maxwell-Chern-Simons…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 L. H. C. Borges , F. A. Barone , H. L. Oliveira