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We focus here on the work of the italian physicist Ettore Majorana, and more particularly on his 1937 article on the symmetrical theory of the electron and the positron, probably one of the most important theory for contemporary thought. We…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2019-07-26 Daniel Parrochia

The Dirac equation is generalized to $D+1$ space-time.The conserved angular momentum operators and their quantum numbers are discussed. The eigenfunctions of the total angular momenta are calculated for both odd $D$ and even $D$ cases. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xiao-Yan Gu , Zhong-Qi Ma , Shi-Hai Dong

The authors prove that the dynamics of spin 1/2 particles in stationary gravitational fields can be described using an approach, which builds upon the formalism of pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians. The proof consists in the analysis of three…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-23 M. V. Gorbatenko , V. P. Neznamov

An efficient solution of the Dirac Hamiltonian flow equations has been proposed through a novel expandsion with the inverse of the Dirac effective mass. The efficiency and accuracy of this new expansion have been demonstrated by reducing a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-31 Z. X. Ren , P. W. Zhao

We show that the Dirac equation is separated into four differential equations for time-period Majarana fermions in Kerr-Newman, Kerr-Newman-(A)dS spacetimes. Although they can not be transformed into radial and angular equations, the four…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-11 Hequn Zhang , Xiao Zhang

A brief review of the different ways of the Dirac equation derivation is given. The foundations of the relativistic canonical quantum mechanics of a fermionic doublet are formulated. In our approach the Dirac equation is derived from the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-24 V. Simulik , I. Krivsky

We call attention to the unusual properties that the 4 dimensional solutions for a modified Fueter-Dirac equations satisfy: In a coordinate-free, constant-free and strictly mathematical way it is possible to show that all the solutions for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Alayon-Solarz

Searching for new states of matter and unusual quasiparticles in emerging materials and especially low-dimensional systems is one of the major trends in contemporary condensed matter physics. Dirac materials, which host quasiparticles which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-13 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

Symplectic unitary representations for the Poincar\'{e} group are studied. The formalism is based on the noncommutative structure of the star-product, and using group theory approach as a guide, a consistent physical theory in phase space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 R. G. G. Amorim , S. C. Ulhoa , Edilberto O. Silva

We study the Dirac equation in a spacetime that represents the nonlinear superposition of the Schwarzchild solution to an external, stationary electromagnetic Berttoti-Robinson solution. We separate the Dirac equation into radial and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-24 A. Al-Badawi , M. Q. Owaidat

We discuss the dynamics of the Dirac fermions in the general strong gravitational and electromagnetic fields. We derive the general Hermitian Dirac Hamiltonian and transform it to the Foldy-Wouthuysen representation for the spatially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-08 Yuri N. Obukhov , Alexander J. Silenko , Oleg. V. Teryaev

The problem about geometric correspondence of Dirac particle and contain quality item of Yang-Mills equation has always not been solved.This paper introduced the hyperbolic imaginary unit in Minkowski space, established a classes of Dirac…

General Physics · Physics 2011-03-23 Xuegang Yu

Compatibility of symmetric quantization of the Dirac equation in a curved space with general covariance gives a special representation of the spin connections in which their dot product with the Dirac gamma matrices becomes equal to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 A. D. Alhaidari

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

Dirac operators on curved space-times are introduced with the help of a new point-view that observers have to be included in the formulation of natural laws. The class of Dirac operators are Lorentz invariant in the sense that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Zhongmin Qian

The Majorana fermion: fermion that is its own antiparticle, was predicted by Majorana in 1937. No fundamental particles are known to be Majorana fermions, although there are speculations that the neutrino is one. Many proposed theories…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-03-29 Yury Bunkov

This work reconsiders the holomorphic and anti-holomorphic Dirac operators of Hermitian Clifford analysis to determine whether or not they are the natural generalization of the orthogonal Dirac operator to spaces with complex structure. We…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-02 Stuart Shirrell , Raymond Walter

Dirac's equations are formulated in a consistent way by using only elements from each of R, C, and H. In H, the quaternions, the symmetry resulting from a "single" conjugation (i, j, or k) results in three conserved currents - possibly…

General Physics · Physics 2009-02-03 Lester C. Welch

In this article we present the algebraic rearrangement, or matrix inversion of the Dirac equation in a curved Riemann-Cartan spacetime with torsion, the presence of non-vanishing torsion is implied by the intrinsic spin-1/2 of the Dirac…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-18 Shaun Inglis , Peter Jarvis

Gamma matrices for quantum Minkowski spaces are found. The invariance of the corresponding Dirac operator is proven. We introduce momenta for spin 1/2 particles and get (in certain cases) formal solutions of the Dirac equation.

q-alg · Mathematics 2009-10-30 P. Podles