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We investigate the Dirac equation in the semiclassical limit \hbar --> 0. A semiclassical propagator and a trace formula are derived and are shown to be determined by the classical orbits of a relativistic point particle. In addition, two…

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We develop a path integrals approach for analyzing stationary light propagation appropriate for photonic crystals. The hermitian form of the stationary Maxwell equations is transformed into a quantum mechanical problem of a spin 1 particle…

Optics · Physics 2009-04-01 Yair Dimant , Shimon Levit

Relativistic formalism of Green's functions is dicussed in QCD and QED,where the relativistic Green's functions are constructed using the Schwinger proper time formalism and the Fock-Feynman-Schwinger method.As a result a simple and exact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-05 Yu. A. Simonov

In this thesis the first order formulation of generalized dilaton gravities in two dimensions coupled to a Dirac fermion is considered. After a Hamiltonian analysis of the gauge symmetries and constraints of the theory and fixing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Rene Meyer

We show how to perform integrals over products of distributions in coordinate space such as to reproduce the results of momentum space Feynman integrals in dimensional regularization. This ensures the invariance of path integrals under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Kleinert , A. Chervyakov

The harmonic oscillator propagator is found straightforwardly from the free particle propagator, within the imaginary-time Feynman path integral formalism. The derivation presented here is extremely simple, requiring only elementary…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Moriconi

We study the Dirac equation of a charged massless spinor on the general charged AdS black hole of conformal gravity. The equation can be solved exactly in terms of Heun's functions. We obtain the exact Green's function in the phase space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 H. Lu , Zhao-Long Wang

We consider the quantum kinetic-theory description for interacting massive spin-half fermions using the Wigner function formalism. We derive a general kinetic theory description assuming that the spin effects appear at the classical and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-11 Arpan Das , Wojciech Florkowski , Avdhesh Kumar , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Rajeev Singh

We derive the relativistic chiral transport equation for massless fermions and antifermions by performing a semiclassical Foldy-Wouthuysen diagonalization of the quantum Dirac Hamiltonian. The Berry connection naturally emerges in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-24 Cristina Manuel , Juan M. Torres-Rincon

We discuss various features and details of two versions of the Barrett-Crane spin foam model of quantum gravity, first of the Spin(4)-symmetric Riemannian model and second of the SL(2,C)-symmetric Lorentzian version in which all tetrahedra…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hendryk Pfeiffer

In this paper the Feynman path integral technique is applied for superintegrable potentials on two-dimensional spaces of non-constant curvature: these spaces are Darboux spaces D_I and D_II, respectively. On D_I there are three and on D_II…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian Grosche , George S. Pogosyan , Alexei N. Sissakian

Given an arbitrary Lagrangian function on \RR^d and a choice of classical path, one can try to define Feynman's path integral supported near the classical path as a formal power series parameterized by "Feynman diagrams," although these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Theo Johnson-Freyd

We consider how vectorial aspects (polarization) of light propagation can be implemented, and its origin, within a Feynman path integral approach. A key part of this scheme is in generalising the standard optical path length integral from a…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-09 James Babington

We propose method for studying relativistic spin-$1/2$ particles by solving the corresponding Feshbach-Villars equation. We have found that the Feshbach-Villars spin-$1/2$ equations can be formulated as spin-coupled Feshbach-Villars…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 D. Wingard , A. Garcia Vallejo , Z. Papp

The chiral phase dependence of fermion partition function in spherically symmetric U(1) gauge field background is analyzed in two dimensional space-time. A well-defined method to calculated the path integral which apply to the continuous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hisashi Kikuchi

The Dirac equation is solved for two novel terms which describe the interaction energy between the half integral spin of a fermion and the classical, circularly polarized, electromagnetic field. A simple experiment is suggested to test the…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Esposito , M. W. Evans , E. Recami

A generalization of the Lagrangian introduced earlier in [2011 {\it J. Phys. G} ${\bf 37}$ 105001] for a classical color spinning particle interacting with background non-Abelian gauge and fermion fields for purpose of considering a change…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-12 Yuri A. Markov , Margarita A. Markova , Alexey A. Shishmarev , Alexander N. Vall

Motivated by the conduction properties of graphene discovered and studied in the last decades, we consider the quantum dynamics of a massless, charged, spin 1/2 relativistic particle in three dimensional space-time, in the presence of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-24 Ivan Morales , Bruno Neves , Zui Oporto , Olivier Piguet

A new density matrix and corresponding quantum kinetic equations are introduced for fermions undergoing coherent evolution either in time (coherent particle production) or in space (quantum reflection). A central element in our derivation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-02 Matti Herranen , Kimmo Kainulainen , Pyry Matti Rahkila

In our paper, we considered how to apply the traditional Feynman path integral to string field. By constructing the complete set in Fock space of non-relativistic and relativistic open bosonic string fields, we extended Feynman path…

General Physics · Physics 2016-05-19 Am-Gil Ri , Tae-Song Kim , Chol-Man Ri , Song-Jin Im