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The Dirac equation with the Coulomb potential is studied. It is shown that there exists a new invariant in addition to the known Dirac and Johnson-Lippman ones. The solution of the Dirac equation, using the generalized invariant, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 A. A. Eremko , L. Brizhik , V. M. Loktev

Exact solutions of the Schrodinger and Dirac equations in generalized cylindrical coordinates of the 3-dimensional space of positive constant curvature, spherical model, have been obtained. It is shown that all basis Schrodinger's and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-15 V. M. Red'kov

We consider the Dirac equation coupled to an external electromagnetic field in curved four-dimensional spacetime with a given timelike worldline $\gamma$ representing a classical clock. We use generalised Fermi normal coordinates in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-27 Ashkan Alibabaei , Philip K. Schwartz , Domenico Giulini

The eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on a curved spacetime are diffeomorphism-invariant functions of the geometry. They form an infinite set of ``observables'' for general relativity. Recent work of Chamseddine and Connes suggests that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Giovanni Landi , Carlo Rovelli

We introduce a spacetime discretization of the Dirac equation that has the form of a quantum automaton and that is invariant upon changing the representation of the Clifford algebra, as the Dirac equation itself. Our derivation follows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Pablo Arnault

I present a review of the Dirac equation in general relativity. Although the generalization of the Dirac equation to a curved spacetime is well known, it is not usually part of the standard toolkit of techniques known to people working on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Miguel Alcubierre

We build upon previous investigation of the one-dimensional conformal symmetry of the Friedman-Lema\^ itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmology of a free scalar field and make it explicit through a reformulation of the theory at the classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 Jibril Ben Achour , Etera R. Livine

In this letter we seek to redress lingering misconceptions pertaining to the physicality of the chiral phase of Dirac bi-spinor fields. Demonstrably, the most general first-order partial differential equation for spinor wavefunctions that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 T. B. Watson , Z. E. Musielak

Employing the covariant language of two-spinors, we find what conditions a curved Lorentzian spacetime must satisfy for existence of a second order symmetry operator for the massive Dirac equation. The conditions are formulated as existence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-02 Simon Jacobsson , Thomas Bäckdahl

Considered is the Schr\"odinger equation in a finite-dimensional space as an equation of mathematical physics derivable from the variational principle and treatable in terms of the Lagrange-Hamilton formalism. It provides an interesting…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-03-17 J. J. Sławianowski , V. Kovalchuk

In this paper we intend to extend some ideas of a recently proposed Lorentz-invariant Bohmian model, obeying Klein-Gordon equations, but considering particles with a spin different than zero. First we build a Bohmian model for a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-09 Sergio Hernández-Zapata

The Schr\"odinger-Pauli theory is generally believed to give a faithful representation of the nonrelativistic and weakly relativistic limit of the Dirac theory. However, the Schr\"odinger-Pauli theory is fundamentally incomplete in its…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-14 R. Winkler , U. Zülicke

A system of generalized coherent states for the de Sitter group obeying the Klein-Gordon equation and corresponding to the massive spin zero particles over the de Sitter space is considered. This allows us to construct the quantized scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Semyon Pol'shin

We present a general approach to solve the (1+1) and (2+1)-dimensional Dirac equation in the presence of static scalar, pseudoscalar and gauge potentials, for the case in which the potentials have the same functional form and thus the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 J. A. Sanchez-Monroy , C. J. Quimbay

A review of some facts concerning classical spacetime geometry is presented together with a description of the most elementary aspects of the two-component spinor formalisms of Infeld and van der Waerden. Special attention is concentrated…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Jorge G. Cardoso

A new concept of geometrization of electromagnetic field is proposed. Instead of the concept of extended field and its point sources, the interacting Maxwellian and Dirac electron--positron fields are considered as a microscopic unified…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 O. A. Olkhov

By noticing the fact that the charged leptons and quarks in the standard model are chirality-based Dirac spinors since their weak interaction violates maximally parity symmetry though they behave as Dirac fermions in electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-12 Yue-Liang Wu

We explicitly compute the Green's function of the spinor Klein-Gordon equation on the Riemannian and Lorentzian manifolds of the form $M_0 \times ... \times M_N$, with each factor being a space of constant sectional curvature. Our approach…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-23 Alberto Enciso , Niky Kamran

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

This article studies a class of Dirac operators of the form $D_\varepsilon= D+\varepsilon^{-1}\mathcal A$, where $\mathcal A$ is a zeroth order perturbation vanishing on a subbundle. When $\mathcal A$ satisfies certain additional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Gregory J. Parker