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We discuss possible definitions of discrete Dirac operators, and discuss their continuum limits. It is well-known in the lattice field theory that the straightforward discretization of the Dirac operator introduces unwanted spectral…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 Shu Nakamura

We present a finite-difference integration algorithm for solution of a system of differential equations containing a diffusion equation with nonlinear terms. The approach is based on Crank-Nicolson method with predictor-corrector algorithm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-05 V. P. Lipp , B. Rethfeld , M. E. Garcia , D. S. Ivanov

We investigate the quantum motion of a neutral Dirac particle bouncing on a mirror in curved spacetime. We consider different geometries: Rindler, Kasner-Taub and Schwarzschild, and show how to solve the Dirac equation by using geometrical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicolas Boulanger , Fabien Buisseret , Philippe Spindel

In this paper, we study a fast and linearized finite difference method to solve the nonlinear time-fractional wave equation with multi fractional orders. We first propose a discretization to the multi-term Caputo derivative based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Pin Lyu , Yuxiang Liang , Zhibo Wang

It is shown the central field Dirac equation can be simplified through the use of real conjugate spinors to substitute for the upper and lower components of the bi-spinor eigensolutions. This substitution reduces the Dirac equation for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 Robert J. Ducharme

The family of solutions to the Dirac equation for an electron moving in an electromagnetic lattice with the chiral structure created by counterpropagating circularly polarized plane electromagnetic waves is obtained. At any nonzero…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 G. N. Borzdov

We present a new mimetic finite difference method for diffusion problems that converges on grids with \textit{curved} (i.e., non-planar) faces. Crucially, it gives a symmetric discrete problem that uses only one discrete unknown per curved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Silvano Pitassi , Riccardo Ghiloni , Igor Petretti , Francesco Trevisan , Ruben Specogna

In this work we describe a general method for obtaining degenerate solutions to the Dirac equation, corresponding to an infinite number of electromagnetic 4-potentials and fields, which are explicitly calculated. In more detail, using four…

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

This study aims to construct a stable, high-order compact finite difference method for solving Sobolev-type equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions in one-space dimension. Approximation of higher-order mixed derivatives in some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Lavanya V Salian , Samala Rathan , Rakesh Kumar

The scattering of Dirac fermions on the sine-Gordon kink is studied both analytically and numerically. To achieve invariance with respect to a discrete symmetry, the sine-Gordon model is treated as a nonlinear $\sigma$-model with a circular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-24 A. Yu. Loginov

This paper studies local boundary conditions for fermionic fields in quantum cosmology, originally introduced by Breitenlohner, Freedman and Hawking for gauged supergravity theories in anti-de Sitter space. For a spin-1/2 field the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Peter D. D'Eath , Giampiero Esposito

We study the problem of a Dirac field in the background of an Aharonov-Bohm flux string. We exclude the origin by imposing spectral boundary conditions at a finite radius then shrinked to zero. Thus, we obtain a behaviour of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 C. G. Beneventano , M. De Francia , E. M. Santangelo

We present the finite-difference parquet method that greatly improves the applicability and accuracy of two-particle correlation approaches to interacting electron systems. This method incorporates the nonperturbative local physics from a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-10 Jae-Mo Lihm , Dominik Kiese , Seung-Sup B. Lee , Fabian B. Kugler

Numerical solving differential equations with fractional derivatives requires elimination of the singularity which is inherent in the standard definition of fractional derivatives. The method of integration by parts to eliminate this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Pavel B. Dubovski , Jeffrey A. Slepoi

The fundamental solution of the Dirac equation for an electron in an electromagnetic field with harmonic dependence on space-time coordinates is obtained. The field is composed of three standing plane harmonic waves with mutually orthogonal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-10 G. N. Borzdov

We study the finite temperature free energy and fermion number for Dirac fields in a one-dimensional spatial segment, under two different members of the family of local boundary conditions defining a self-adjoint Euclidean Dirac operator in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 C. G. Beneventano , E. M. Santangelo

The massive Dirac equation on a Kerr-Newman background may be solved by the method of separation of variables. The radial and angular equations are coupled via an angular eigenvalue, which is determined from the Chandrasekhar-Page (CP)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-25 Sam Dolan , Jonathan Gair

In this paper we consider a class of fourth order nonlinear integro-differential equations with Navier boundary conditions. By the reduction of the problem to operator equation we establish the existence and uniqueness of solution and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Dang Quang A , Dang Quang Long

The generalized Dirac equation of the third order, describing particles with spin 1/2 and three mass states, is analyzed. We obtain the first order generalized Dirac equation in the 24-dimensional matrix form. The mass and spin projection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. I. Kruglov