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We develop an approach to prove self-adjointness of Dirac operators with boundary or transmission conditions at a $\mathcal{C}^2$-compact surface without boundary. To do so we are lead to study the layer potential induced by the Dirac…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos , Luis Vega

Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ be an open set, we study the spectral properties of the free Dirac operator $\mathcal{H}$ coupled with the singular potential $V_\kappa=(\epsilon I_4 +\mu\beta+\eta(\alpha\cdot N))\delta_{\partial\Omega}$.…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Badreddine Benhellal

We discuss the spectral properties of three-dimensional Dirac operators with critical combinations of electrostatic and Lorentz scalar shell interactions supported by a compact smooth surface. It turns out that the criticality of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Badreddine Benhellal , Konstantin Pankrashkin

We study the self-adjointness of the two-dimensional Dirac operator coupled with electrostatic and Lorentz scalar shell interactions of constant strength $\varepsilon$ and $\mu$ supported on a closed Lipschitz curve. Namely, we present…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Badredine Benhellal , Konstantin Pankrashkin , Mahdi Zreik

The self-adjointness of $H+V$ is studied, where $H=-i\alpha\cdot\nabla +m\beta$ is the free Dirac operator in $\R^3$ and $V$ is a measure-valued potential. The potentials $V$ under consideration are given by singular measures with respect…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-24 Naiara Arrizabalaga , Albert Mas , Luis Vega

We study two-dimensional Dirac operators with singular interactions of electrostatic and Lorentzscalar type, supported either on a straight line or a circle. For certain critical values of the interaction strengths, the essential spectrum…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-02 William Borrelli , Pietro Carimati , Davide Fermi

In this article we investigate spectral properties of the coupling $H+V_\lambda$, where $H=-i\alpha\cdot\nabla +m\beta$ is the free Dirac operator in $\mathbb R^3$, $m>0$ and $V_\lambda$ is an electrostatic shell potential (which depends on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Naiara Arrizabalaga , Albert Mas , Luis Vega

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

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

In this note the two dimensional Dirac operator $A_\eta$ with an electrostatic $\delta$-shell interaction of strength $\eta\in\mathbb R$ supported on a straight line is studied. We observe a spectral transition in the sense that for the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-05 Jussi Behrndt , Markus Holzmann , Matěj Tušek

The one-dimensional Dirac operator with a singular interaction term which is formally given by $A\otimes|\delta_0\rangle\langle\delta_0|$, where $A$ is an arbitrary $2\times 2$ matrix and $\delta_0$ stands for the Dirac distribution, is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-11 Lukáš Heriban , Matěj Tušek

An elementary treatment of the Dirac Equation in the presence of a three-dimensional spherically symmetric $\delta (r-r_0)$-potential is presented. We show how to handle the matching conditions in the configuration space, and discuss the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Benguria , H. Castillo , M. Loewe

We consider the two-dimensional Dirac operator with Lorentz-scalar $\delta$-shell interactions on each edge of a star-graph. An orthogonal decomposition is performed which shows such an operator is unitarily equivalent to an orthogonal sum…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Dale Frymark , Vladimir Lotoreichik

We propose a new method to construct a four parameter family of quantum-mechanical point interactions in one dimension, which is known as all possible self-adjoint extensions of the symmetric operator $T=-\Delta \lceil C^{\infty}_{0}({\bf…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Shigehara , H. Mizoguchi , T. Mishima , Taksu Cheon

In this article we discuss the Dirac equation in the presence of an attractive cylindrical \delta-shell potential V(\rho)=-a\delta(\rho-\rho_0), where \rho is the radial coordinate and a>0. We present a detailed discussion on the boundary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-06 M. Loewe , F. Marquez , R. Zamora

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

We construct a one-dimensional contact interaction ($\epsilon$ potential) which induces the discontinuity of the wave function while keeping its derivative continuous. By combining the $\epsilon$ potential and the Dirac's $\delta$ function,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Taksu Cheon , T. Shigehara

We show that a Schr\"odinger operator $A_{\delta, \alpha}$ with a $\delta$-interaction of strength $\alpha$ supported on a bounded or unbounded $C^2$-hypersurface $\Sigma \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $d\ge 2$, can be approximated in the norm…

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

The purpose of this paper is to make an explicit construction of specific self-adjoint extensions of the Dirac Hamiltonian in the presence of a $\delta$-sphere interaction of finite radius. The exact resolvent kernel of the free Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriel Y. H. Avossevou , Jan Govaerts , M. Norbert Hounkonnou

We consider the one-parametric family of self-adjoint realizations of the two-dimensional massive Dirac operator with a Lorentz scalar $\delta$-shell interaction of strength $\tau\in\mathbb{R}\setminus\{-2,0,2\}$ supported on a broken line…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Dale Frymark , Markus Holzmann , Vladimir Lotoreichik