English
Related papers

Related papers: Trajectory construction of Dirac evolution

200 papers

We study equilibrium transport properties of massless Dirac fermions at finite temperature and chemical potential in spacetime accompanied by torsion, which in four dimensions couples with Dirac fermions as an axial gauge field. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-06 Tatsuya Amitani , Yusuke Nishida

We investigate the relationship between the covariant and the three-dimensional (equal-time) formulations of quantum kinetic theory. We show that the three-dimensional approach can be obtained as the energy average of the covariant…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 P. Zhuang , U. Heinz

We show that a propagating Dirac electron with intrinsic spin generically carries a real--space helical conserved current, even in the absence of orbital angular momentum. Using exact Dirac eigenstates in cylindrical confinement, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Ju Gao , Fang Shen

We study the large population limit of the Moran process, assuming weak-selection, and for different scalings. Depending on the particular choice of scalings, we obtain a continuous model that may highlight the genetic-drift (neutral…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-01-21 Fabio A. C. C. Chalub , Max O. Souza

A rigorous \textit{ab initio} derivation of the (square of) Dirac's equation for a single particle with spin is presented. The general Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the particle expressed in terms of a background Weyl's conformal geometry is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Enrico Santamato , Francesco De Martini

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 focus on a family of nonlinear continuity equations for the evolution of a non-negative density $\rho$ with a continuous and compactly supported nonlinear mobility $\mathrm{m}(\rho)$ not necessarily concave. The velocity field is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-19 José Antonio Carrillo , Alejandro Fernández-Jiménez , David Gómez-Castro

In Dirac materials, the low energy excitations obey the relativistic Dirac equation. This dependence implies that the electrons are exposed to strong spin-orbit coupling. Hence, real spin conservation is believed to be violated in Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-27 Vanessa Werner , Björn Trauzettel , Oleksiy Kashuba

We derive the continuous spacetime limit of the one dimensional lazy discrete time quantum walk, obtaining explicit macroscopic evolution equations for a three state model in the presence of decoherence. While continuum limits of two state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Lara Janiurek , Viv Kendon

The Dirac equation is one of the most fundamental equations of modern physics. It is a spinor equation, but some tensor equivalents of the equation were proposed previously. Those equivalents were either nonlinear or involved several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Andrey Akhmeteli

The relativistic semiclassical evolution of the position of an electron in the presence of an external electromagnetic field is studied in terms of a Newton equation that incorporates spin effects directly. This equation emerges from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-13 R. Gutierrez-Jauregui , R. Perez-Pascual , R. Jauregui

We consider the Einstein-Dirac system for a massive field, which describes the evolution of self-gravitating massive spinor fields, and we investigate the global evolution problem, when the initial data set is sufficiently close to data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-24 Philippe G. LeFloch , Yue Ma , Weidong Zhang

In this note we generalized the Dirac non-linear electrodynamics, by introducing two potentials (namely, the vector potential A and the pseudo-vector potential gamma^5 B of the electromagnetic theory with charges and magnetic monopoles) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 W. A. Rodrigues , Jayme Vaz , Erasmo Recami

Three out of four complex components of the Dirac spinor can be algebraically eliminated from the Dirac equation (if some linear combination of electromagnetic fields does not vanish), yielding a partial differential equation of the fourth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Andrey Akhmeteli

We consider Dirac's free electron theory on the first quantized level. We decompose its canonical spin current \'a la Gordon and find a conserved ``Gordon spin'' current which turns out to be equivalent to the Hilgevoord-Wouthuysen spin. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ingo Kirsch , Lewis H. Ryder , Friedrich W. Hehl

We derive a Dirac-like equation, the asymmetric Dirac equation, where particles and antiparticles sharing the same wave number have different energies and momenta. We show that this equation is Lorentz covariant under proper Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-30 Gustavo Rigolin

The paper analyzes time propagation of Dirac observables - using Heisenberg representation - in the light of various pseudodifferential operator algebras (cf. [Co3], [Co15], [Co16]). Our theory gives (i) a mechanical angular momentum (the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-04 H. O. Cordes

In a Majorana basis, the Dirac equation for a free spin one-half particle is a 4x4 real matrix differential equation. The solution can be a Majorana spinor, a 4x1 real column matrix, whose entries are real functions of the space-time. Can a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 L. Pedro

We apply the generating function technique developed by Nazarov to the computation of the density of transmission eigenvalues for a two-dimensional free massless Dirac fermion, which, e.g., underlies theoretical descriptions of graphene. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 S. Ryu , C. Mudry , A. Furusaki , A. W. W. Ludwig

We study the Dirac equation in confining potentials with pure vector coupling, proving the existence of metastable states with longer and longer lifetimes as the non-relativistic limit is approached and eventually merging with continuity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 R. Giachetti , E. Sorace