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We argue that the Fermi-Hubbard Hamiltonian describing the physics of ultracold atoms on optical lattices in the presence of artificial non-Abelian gauge fields, is exactly equivalent to the gauge theory Hamiltonian describing Dirac…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-03-07 O. Boada , A. Celi , J. I. Latorre , M. Lewenstein

It is shown that, for spherically symmetric static backgrounds, a simple reduced Dirac equation can be obtained by using the Cartesian tetrad gauge in Cartesian holonomic coordinates. This equation is manifestly covariant under rotations so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Ion I. Cotăescu

Due to the chiral nature of the Dirac equation, overlying of an electrical superlattice (SL) can open new Dirac points on the Fermi-surface of the energy spectrum. These lead to novel low-excitation physical phenomena. A typical example for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-28 Juergen Dietel , Hagen Kleinert

Starting from an interpretation of the classical-quantum correspondence, we derive the Dirac equation by factorizing the algebraic relation satisfied by the classical Hamiltonian, before applying the correspondence. This derivation applies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Mayeul Arminjon

We construct normalizable, semi-classical states for the previously proposed model of quantum gravity which is formulated as a spectral triple over holonomy loops. The semi-classical limit of the spectral triple gives the Dirac Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-02 Johannes Aastrup , Jesper M. Grimstrup , Mario Paschke , Ryszard Nest

The ambiguity involved in the definition of effective-mass Hamiltonians for nonrelativistic models is resolved using the Dirac equation. The multistep approximation is extended for relativistic cases allowing the treatment of arbitrary…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Renan , M. H. Pacheco , C. A. S. Almeida

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

The most general dilaton gravity theory in 2 spacetime dimensions is considered. A Hamiltonian analysis is performed and the reduced phase space, which is two dimensional, is explicitly constructed in a suitable parametrization of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 D. Louis- Martinez , J. Gegenberg , G. Kunstatter

The Dirac eigenvalues form a subset of observables of the Euclidean gravity. The symplectic two-form in the covariant phase space could be expressed, in principle, in terms of the Dirac eigenvalues. We discuss the existence of the formal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. C. B. Abdalla , M. A. De Andrade , M. A. Santos , I. V. Vancea

The semiclassical approximation for the Hamiltonian of Dirac particles interacting with an arbitrary gravitational field is investigated. The time dependence of the metrics leads to new contributions to the in-band energy operator in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-19 Pierre Gosselin , Herve Mohrbach

The Dirac equation, usually obtained by `quantizing' a classical stochastic model is here obtained directly within classical statistical mechanics. The special underlying space-time geometry of the random walk replaces the missing analytic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. N. Ord

The Dirac equation provides a description of spin 1/2 particles, consistent with both the principles of quantum mechanics and of special relativity. Often its presentation to students is based on mathematical propositions that may hide the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-01 S. Savasta , O. Di Stefano , O. M. Marago

Starting from a model of an elastic medium, we derive equations of motion that are identical in form to Dirac's equation for a spin 1/2 particle with mass, coupled to electromagnetic and gravitational interactions. The mass and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 John M. Baker

The Dirac equation may be thought as originating from a theory of five-dimensional (5D) space-time. We define a special 5D Clifford algebra and introduce a spin-1/2 constraint equation to describe null propagation in a 5D space-time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-22 Romulus Breban

Filling-enforced Dirac semimetals, or those required at specific fillings by the combination of crystalline and time-reversal symmetries, have been proposed and discovered in numerous materials. However, Dirac points in these materials are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-26 Steve M Young , Benjamin J. Wieder

We consider the optical and transport properties in a model two-dimensional Hamiltonian which describes the merging of two Dirac points. At low energy, in the presence of an energy gap parameter $\Delta$, there are two distinct Dirac points…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-09 J. P. Carbotte , E. J. Nicol

Geometric properties of operators of quantum Dirac constraints and physical observables are studied in semiclassical theory of generic constrained systems. The invariance transformations of the classical theory -- contact canonical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 A. O. Barvinsky

The Dirac equation in curved spacetimes is formulated using coordinate-free notation. A Lagrangean density which corresponds to the subject equation is presented. The subject equation is invariant under a local rotation of the coframe. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Mihai Moise

Thermal scalar radiation in two spacetime dimensions is treated within relativistic classical physics. Part I involves an inertial frame where are given the analogues both of Boltzmann's derivation of the Stefan-Boltzmann law and also…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Timothy H. Boyer

A new framework for deriving equations of motion for constrained quantum systems is introduced, and a procedure for its implementation is outlined. In special cases the framework reduces to a quantum analogue of the Dirac theory of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-13 Dorje C. Brody , Anna C. T. Gustavsson , Lane P. Hughston