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A quantum algorithm that solves the time-dependent Dirac equation on a digital quantum computer is developed and analyzed. The time evolution is performed by an operator splitting decomposition technique that allows for a mapping of the…

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The Relativistic Dynamical Inversion technique, a novel tool for finding analytical solutions to the Dirac equation, is written in explicitly covariant form. It is then shown how the technique can be used to make a change from Cartesian to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-30 A. G. Campos , Luca Fabbri

Neutral fermions of spin $\frac 12$ with magnetic moment can interact with electromagnetic fields through nonminimal coupling. The Dirac--Pauli equation for such a fermion coupled to a spherically symmetric or central electric field can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Qiong-gui Lin

A simple framework for Dirac spinors is developed that parametrizes admissible quantum dynamics and also analytically constructs electromagnetic fields, obeying Maxwell's equations, which yield a desired evolution. In particular, we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Andre G. Campos , Renan Cabrera , Herschel A. Rabitz , Denys I. Bondar

We present four frequently used finite difference methods and establish the error bounds for the discretization of the Dirac equation in the massless and nonrelativistic regime, involving a small dimensionless parameter $0< \varepsilon \ll…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-03 Ying Ma , Jia Yin

We provide an alternative approach to relativistic dynamics based on the Feshbach projection technique. Instead of directly studying the Dirac equation, we derive a two-component equation for the upper spinor. This approach allows one to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-21 Da-Wei Luo , P. V. Pyshkin , Ting Yu , Hai-Qing Lin , J. Q. You , Lian-Ao Wu

In this paper, we are interested in the study of a problem with fractional derivatives having boundary conditions of integral types. The problem represents a Caputo type advection-diffusion equation where the fractional order derivative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Saadoune Brahimi , Ahcene Merad , Adem Kilicman

The Dirac equation is used to describe oblique spin-conserving and spin-flip reflections of relativistic electrons from a one-dimensional potential barrier in a vacuum. When an electron hits the barrier from an oblique direction, its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Wlodek Zawadzki , Pawel Pfeffer

The problem of a fermion subject to a general scalar potential in a two-dimensional world is mapped into a Sturm-Liouville problem for nonzero eigenenergies. The searching for possible bounded solutions is done in the circumstance of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Antonio S. de Castro

Integration of the Dirac equation with an external electromagnetic field is explored in the framework of the method of separation of variables and of the method of noncommutative integration. We have found a new type of solutions that are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 A. I. Breev , A. V. Shapovalov

We develop a fully discrete scheme for time-fractional diffusion equations by using a finite difference method in time and a finite element method in space. The fractional derivatives are used in Caputo sense. Stability and error estimates…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-05 Moulay Rchid Sidi Ammi , Ismail Jamiai , Delfim F. M. Torres

A finite element methodology for large classes of variational boundary value problems is defined which involves discretizing two linear operators: (1) the differential operator defining the spatial boundary value problem; and (2) a Riesz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Brendan Keith , Socratis Petrides , Federico Fuentes , Leszek Demkowicz

We apply a composite idea of semi-discrete finite difference approximation in time and Galerkin finite element method in space to solve the Navier-Stokes equations with Caputo derivative of order 0 < {\alpha} < 1. The stability properties…

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In this paper, we determine the bound-state solutions for Dirac fermions with electric dipole moment (EDM) and position-dependent mass (PDM) in the presence of a radial magnetic field generated by magnetic monopoles. To achieve this, we…

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A relativistic equation is deduced for the bound state of two particles, by assuming a proper boundary condition for the propagation of the negative-energy states. It reduces to the (one-body)Dirac equation in the infinite limit of one of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hitoshi Ito

We first study the linear eigenvalue problem for a planar Dirac system in the open half-line and describe the nodal properties of its solution by means of the rotation number. We then give a global bifurcation result for a planar nonlinear…

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The two-dimensional Dirac equation has been widely used in graphene physics, the surface of topological insulators, and especially quantum scarring. Although a numerical approach to tackling an arbitrary confining problem was proposed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Jiale Sun , Xiaoshui Lin

Time fractional advection-dispersion equations arise as generalizations of classical integer order advection-dispersion equations and are increasingly used to model fluid flow problems through porous media. In this paper we develop an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Carlos E. Mejía , Alejandro Piedrahita

This paper introduces filtered finite difference methods for numerically solving a dispersive evolution equation with solutions that are highly oscillatory in both space and time. We consider a semiclassically scaled nonlinear Schr\"odinger…

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