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We carry out the spectral analysis of singular matrix valued perturbations of 3-dimensional Dirac operators with variable magnetic field of constant direction. Under suitable assumptions on the magnetic field and on the perturbations, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Serge Richard , Rafael Tiedra de Aldecoa

In this paper the spectral properties of Dirac operators $A_\eta$ with electrostatic $\delta$-shell interactions of constant strength $\eta$ supported on compact smooth surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ are studied. Making use of boundary triple…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Jussi Behrndt , Pavel Exner , Markus Holzmann , Vladimir Lotoreichik

We investigate the properties of self-adjointness of a two-dimensional Dirac operator on an infinite sector with infinite mass boundary conditions and in presence of a Coulomb-type potential with the singularity placed on the vertex. In the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Biagio Cassano , Matteo Gallone , Fabio Pizzichillo

The problem of self-adjoint extensions of Dirac-type operators in manifolds with boundaries is analysed. The boundaries might be regular or non-regular. The latter situation includes point-like interactions, also called delta-like…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-29 J. M. Pérez-Pardo

We study the spectrum of a one-dimensional Dirac operator pencil, with a coupling constant in front of the potential considered as the spectral parameter. Motivated by recent investigations of graphene waveguides, we focus on the values of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Daniel M. Elton , Michael Levitin , Iosif Polterovich

This paper is devoted to the approximation of two and three-dimensional Dirac operators $H_{\widetilde{V} \delta_\Sigma}$ with combinations of electrostatic and Lorentz scalar $\delta$-shell interactions in the norm resolvent sense. Relying…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Jussi Behrndt , Markus Holzmann , Christian Stelzer-Landauer

Given an open set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$. We deal with the spectral study of Dirac operators of the form $H_{a,\tau}=H+A_{a,\tau}\delta_{\partial\Omega}$, where $H$ is the free Dirac operator in $\mathbb{R}^3$, $A_{a,\tau}$ is a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Badreddine Benhellal

Investigating properties of two-dimensional Dirac operators coupled to an electric and a magnetic field (perpendicular to the plane) requires in general unbounded (vector-) potentials. If the system has a certain symmetry, the fields can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-24 Josef Mehringer , Edgardo Stockmeyer

Consider a formally self-adjoint first order linear differential operator acting on pairs (2-columns) of complex-valued scalar fields over a 4-manifold without boundary. We examine the geometric content of such an operator and show that it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-05 Yan-Long Fang , Dmitri Vassiliev

The Courant-Snyder theory for two-dimensional coupled linear optics is presented, based on the systematic use of the real representation of the Dirac matrices. Since any real $4\times 4$-matrix can be expressed as a linear combination of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-01-05 C. Baumgarten

Given a bounded smooth domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$, we explore the relation between couplings of the free Dirac operator $-i\alpha\cdot\nabla+m\beta$ with pure electrostatic shell potentials $\lambda\delta_{\partial\Omega}$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-14 Albert Mas

A signature independent formalism is created and utilized to determine the general second-order symmetry operators for Dirac's equation on two-dimensional Lorentzian spin manifolds. The formalism is used to characterize the orthonormal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-16 Alberto Carignano , Lorenzo Fatibene , Raymond G. McLenaghan , Giovanni Rastelli

Analyzing the point spectrum, i.e. bound state energy eigenvalue, of the Dirac delta function in two and three dimensions is notoriously difficult without recourse to regularization or renormalization, typically both. The reason for this in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Michael Maroun

We analyze the limit of the spectrum of a geometric Dirac-type operator under a collapse with bounded diameter and bounded sectional curvature. In the case of a smooth limit space B, we show that the limit of the spectrum is given by the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John Lott

We consider half-line Dirac operators with operator data of Wigner-von Neumann type. If the data is a finite linear combination of Wigner-von Neumann functions, we show absence of singular continuous spectrum and provide an explicit set…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Ethan Gwaltney

We explore the Hamiltonian operator H=-d^2/dx^2 + z \delta(x) where x is real, \delta(x) is the Dirac delta function, and z is an arbitrary complex coupling constant. For a purely imaginary z, H has a (real) spectral singularity at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ali Mostafazadeh

We consider a two-dimensional massless Dirac operator coupled to a magnetic field $B$ and an electric potential $V$ growing at infinity. We find a characterization of the spectrum of the resulting operator $H$ in terms of the relation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-28 Josef Mehringer , Edgardo Stockmeyer

We investigate the self-adjointness of the two dimensional Dirac operator with infinite mass boundary conditions on an unbounded domain with an infinite number of corners. We prove that if the domain has no concave corners, then the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Miguel Camarasa , Fabio Pizzichillo

Spectral properties and the confinement phenomenon for the coupling $H+V$ are studied, where $H=-i\alpha\cdot\nabla +m\beta$ is the free Dirac operator in $\mathcal{R}^3$ and $V$ is a measure-valued potential. The potentials $V$ under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-16 Naiara Arrizabalaga , Albert Mas , Luis Vega

We study the spectrum of a periodic non-self-adjoint Dirac operator, and its dependence on a semiclassical parameter is also considered. Several bounds on the spectrum are obtained which provide sharp spectral enclosure estimates.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Jeffrey Oregero