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We analyze the dispersive properties of a Dirac system perturbed with a magnetic field. We prove a general virial identity; as applications, we obtain smoothing and endpoint Strichartz estimates which are optimal from the decay point of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-18 Nabile Boussaid , Piero D'Ancona , Luca Fanelli

The present theory is closely related to Dirac's equation of the electron, but not to his magnetic monopole theory, except for his relation between electric and magnetic charge. The theory is based on the fact, that the massless Dirac…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Georges Lochak

In the variational framework, we study the electronic energy spectrum of massless Dirac fermions of graphene subjected to one-dimensional oscillating magnetic and electrostatic fields centered around a constant uniform static magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 B. S. Kandemir , A. Mogulkoc

We consider the three-dimensional Dirac equation in spherical coordinates with coupling to static electromagnetic potential. The space components of the potential have angular (non-central) dependence such that the Dirac equation is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Alhaidari

We consider the three-dimensional Dirac equation in spherical coordinates with coupling to static electromagnetic potential. The space components of the potential have angular (non-central) dependence such that the Dirac equation is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Alhaidari

In this article, we consider the Dirac operator with constant magnetic field in $\mathbb R^2$. Its spectrum consists of eigenvalues of infinite multiplicities, known as the Landau-Dirac levels. Under compactly supported perturbations, we…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Vincent Bruneau , Pablo Miranda

Within the context of infinite-dimensional representations of the rotation group the Dirac monopole problem is studied in details. Irreducible infinite-dimensional representations, being realized in the indefinite metric Hilbert space, are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-30 Alexander I. Nesterov , Fermin Aceves de la Cruz

In symplectic mechanics, the magnetic term describing the interaction between a charged particle and an external magnetic field has to be introduced by hand. On the contrary, in generalised complex geometry, such magnetic terms in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Isidro

In 1931, Dirac advanced a startling prediction about the existence of a new elementary particle, characterized by a magnetic charge of a single polarity: the magnetic monopole. This prediction, that was not based on experimental reasons but…

Popular Physics · Physics 2018-07-03 A. M. Aloisi , P. F. Nali

We present Dirac's method for using dual potentials to solve classical electrodynamics for an oppositely charged pair of particles, with a view to extending these techniques to non-Abelian gauge theories.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 M. Baker , James S. Ball , F. Zachariasen

It is well known that a magnetic monopole-electric charge system carries an angular momentum in its electromagnetic fields. Here we show that in the Dirac string formulation of magnetic charge the monopole-electric charge system also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-11 Siva Mythili Gonuguntla , Douglas Singleton

We construct nonlinear extensions of Dirac's relativistic electron equation that preserve its other desirable properties such as locality, separability, conservation of probability and Poincar\'e invariance. We determine the constraints…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-27 Wei-Khim Ng , Rajesh R. Parwani

We investigate topological vector potentials underlying the phases of nonlinear waves by performing Dirac's magnetic monopole theory in an extended complex plane, taking into account self-steepening effects while ignoring the usual cubic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-30 Yan-Hong Qin , Jin-Peng Yang , Li-Chen Zhao

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

We use supersymmetry transformations to obtain new one parameter family of inhomogeneous magnetic fields $\mathbf{B} = \widetilde{\mathcal{B}}(x,\lambda) \hat{e}_z$ for which the massless Dirac electron possesses exact solution. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 Bikashkali Midya , David J Fernández

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

We consider the magnetic Dirac operator on a curved strip whose boundary carries the infinite mass boundary condition. When the magnetic field is large, we provide the reader with accurate estimates of the essential and discrete spectra. In…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Loïc Le Treust , Julien Royer , Nicolas Raymond

In this article, we study the spectrum of the magnetic Dirac operator, and the magnetic Dirac operator with potential over complete Riemannian manifolds. We find sufficient conditions on the potentials as well as the manifold so that the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-25 Nelia Charalambous , Nadine Große

We consider the Dirac operator with a periodic potential on the half-line with the Dirichlet boundary condition at zero. Its spectrum consists of an absolutely continuous part plus at most one eigenvalue in each open gap. The Dirac…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Evgeny Korotyaev , Dmitrii Mokeev

Undistorted monolayer graphene has energy bands which cross at protected Dirac points. It elastically deforms and much research has assumed the Dirac description persists, now in a curved space and coupled to a gauge field related to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Matthew M. Roberts , Toby Wiseman