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General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Marcoen J. T. F. Cabbolet

A 1D Dirac tight-binding model is considered and it is shown that its nonrelativistic limit is the 1D discrete Schr?odinger model. For random Bernoulli potentials taking two values (without correlations), for typical realizations and for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Cesar R. de Oliveira , Roberto A. Prado

We obtain the extra delta-like singularity while reduction of the Laplace operator in spherical coordinates, elimination of which restricts the radial wave functions at the origin. This restriction has the form of boundary condition for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-22 A. Khelashvili , T. Nadareishvili

Let ${\mathsf D}$ and ${\mathsf H}$ be the self-adjoint, one-dimensional Dirac and Schr\"odinger operators in $L^{2}(\mathbb{R};\mathbb{C}^{2})$ and $L^{2}(\mathbb{R};\mathbb{C})$ respectively. It is well known that, in absence of an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 A. Posilicano , L. Reginato

Communication between single cells or higher organisms by means of diffusive compounds is an important phenomenon in biological systems. Modelling therefore often occurs, most straightforwardly by a diffusion equation with suitable flux…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Xiao Yang , Qiyao Peng , Sander C. Hille

The Dirac delta function potential is considered within the real Hilbert space approach for complex wave functions, as well as quaternionic wave functions. As has been previously determined, the real Hilbert space approach enables the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Sergio Giardino

We obtain for the attractive Dirac delta-function potential in two-dimensional quantum mechanics a renormalized formulation that avoids reference to a cutoff and running coupling constant. Dimensional transmutation is carried out before…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 R. J. Henderson , S. G. Rajeev

Motivated by the discrete dipole approximation (DDA) for the scattering of electromagnetic waves by a dielectric obstacle that can be considered as a simple discretization of a Lippmann-Schwinger style volume integral equation for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Martin Costabel , Monique Dauge , Khadijeh Nedaiasl

The Dirac delta function can be defined by the limitation of the rectangular function covering a unit area with decrease of the width of the rectangle to zero, and in quantum mechanics the eigenvectors of the position operator take the form…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 J. C. Ye , S. Q. Kuang , Z. Li , S. Dai , Q. H. Liu

Let $-\lambda_j$ be the eigenvalues of the Laplace operator on the unit disk with Dirichlet conditions. The distribution $h(t) = \sum_j e^{i\sqrt\lambda_j t}$ is the trace of the solution operator of the wave equation on the disk. It is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-04 Yves Colin de Verdière , Victor Guillemin , David Jerison

Introduced eighty years ago, the Fermi pseudopotential has been a powerful concept in multiple fields of physics. It replaces the detailed shape of a potential by a delta-function operator multiplied by a parameter giving the strength of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Trang T. Le , Zach Osman , D. K. Watson , Martin Dunn , B. A. McKinney

The Dirac equation requires a treatment of the step potential that differs fundamentally from the traditional treatment, because the Dirac plane waves, besides momentum and spin, are characterized by a quantum number with the physical…

General Physics · Physics 2017-04-14 Egon Truebenbacher

Let H be the discrete 3-dimensional Heisenberg group with the standard generators x, y, z. The element Delta of the group algebra for H of the form Delta= (x+x^{-1}+y+y^{-1})/4 is called the Laplace operator. This operator can also be…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. Kokhas , A. Suvorov

We demonstrate that the Dirac representation theory can be effectively adjusted and applied to signal theory. The main emphasis is on orthogonality as the principal physical requirement. The particular role of the identity and projection…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Gersten

As a prototype of an evolution equation we consider the Schr\"odinger equation i (d/dt) \Psi(t) = H \Psi(t), H = H_0 + V(x) for the Hilbert space valued function \Psi(.) which describes the state of the system at time t in space dimension…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Volker Enss

We study a random Schroedinger operator, the Laplacian with random Dirac delta potentials on a torus T^d_L = R^d/LZ^d, in the thermodynamic limit L\to\infty, for dimension d=2. The potentials are located on a randomly distorted lattice…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Henrik Ueberschaer

Digital signal theory is an extension of the analysis of continuous signals. This extension is provided by discretization and sampling. The sampling of signals can be mathematically described by a series of Dirac impulses and is well known.…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Iwan Feras Fattohi , Christian Prehofer , Frank Slomka

For a subquadratic symbol $H$ on $\R^d\times\R^d = T^*(\R^d)$, the quantum propagator of the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation $i\hbar\frac{\partial\psi}{\partial t} = \hat H\psi$ is a Semiclassical Fourier-Integral Operator when $\hat…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Didier Robert

Based on the recent work \cite{KKK} for compact potentials, we develop the spectral theory for the one-dimensional discrete Schr\"odinger operator $$ H \phi = (-\De + V)\phi=-(\phi_{n+1} + \phi_{n-1} - 2 \phi_n) + V_n \phi_n. $$ We show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. E. Pelinovsky , A. Stefanov

The stationary states of a particle in a central potential are usually taken as a product of an angular part Phi and a radial part R. The function R satisfies the so-called radial equation and is usually solved by demanding R to be finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Jesus Etxebarria