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In this paper, new self-adjoint realizations of the Dirac operator in dimension two and three are introduced. It is shown that they may be associated with the formal expression $\mathcal{D}_0+|F\delta_\Sigma\rangle\langle G\delta_\Sigma|$,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Lukáš Heriban , Matěj Tušek

In this note we present an example from undergraduate quantum mechanics designed to highlight the versatility of the Dirac $\delta$-function. Namely, we compute the expectation value of the Hamiltonian of a free-particle in a state…

General Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Asim Gangopadhyaya , Constantin Rasinariu

We investigate the Schr\"{o}dinger operators $H_\varepsilon=-\Delta +W+V_\varepsilon$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$ with the short-range potentials $V_\varepsilon$ which are localized around a smooth closed curve $\gamma$. The operators $H_\varepsilon$…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Yuriy Golovaty

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

We focus on a recently developed generalized pseudospectral method for accurate, efficient treatment of certain central potentials of interest in various branches in quantum mechanics, usually having singularity. Essentially this allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Amlan K. Roy

The dynamics of an initially localized wavepacket is studied for the generalized nonlinear Schroedinger Equation with a random potential, where the nonlinearity term is |\psi|^p*\psi and "p" is arbitrary. Mainly short times for which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-30 Hagar Veksler , Yevgeny Krivolapov , Shmuel Fishman

The spectral problem of the Dirac equation in an external quadratic vector potential is considered using the methods of the perturbation theory. The problem is singular and the perturbation series is asymptotic, so that the methods for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Giachetti , V. Grecchi

In two previous papers the author introduced a multiplication of distributions in one dimension and he proved that two one-dimensional Dirac delta functions and their derivatives can be multiplied, at least under certain conditions. Here,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-04-02 F. Bagarello

Partial differential equations with distributional sources---in particular, involving (derivatives of) delta distributions---have become increasingly ubiquitous in numerous areas of physics and applied mathematics. It is often of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Marius Oltean , Carlos F. Sopuerta , Alessandro D. A. M. Spallicci

Quantum geometry on a discrete set means a directed graph with a weight associated to each arrow defining the quantum metric. However, these `lattice spacing' weights do not have to be independent of the direction of the arrow. We use this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-28 Shahn Majid

We study the effect of a $\delta$ distribution potential placed at $x_0\geq 0$ and multiplied by a parameter $\alpha$ on a quantum mechanical particle in an infinite square well over the segment $\left[-\,\frac{L}{2},\frac{L}{2}\right]$. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Pedro Martins Girão , João Pedro Nunes

We describe two-dimensional potential Schrodinger and Dirac operators which are finite-gap at one energy level and have singular spectral curves. It appears that the singularities can be rather complicated. Such Dirac operators appear as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. A. Taimanov

The importance of the energy spectrum of bound states and their restrictions in quantum mechanics due to the different methods have been used for calculating and determining the limit of them. Comparison of Schrodinger-like equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-09 Zahra Bakhshi

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…

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It is the purpose of this article to outline a course that can be given to engineers looking for an understandable mathematical description of the foundations of distribution theory and the necessary functional analytic methods. Arguably,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Hans G. Feichtinger , Mads S. Jakobsen

Using a modification of the Shapiro approach, we introduce the two-parameter family of conductance distributions W(g), defined by simple differential equations, which are in the one-to-one correspondence with conductance distributions for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-02 I. M. Suslov

Careful exploration of the idea that equation for radial wave function must be compatible with the full Schrodinger equation shows appearance of the delta-function while reduction of full Schrodinger equation in spherical coordinates.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-05-21 Anzor A. Khelashvili , Teimuraz P. Nadareishvili

The Dirac particle S_D is investigated by means of dynamic methods, i.e. without a use of the principles of quantum mechanics. It is shown that the Pauli particle S_P and the nonrelativistic approximation S_{nD} of the Dirac particle S_D…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri A. Rylov

A model in which a Dirac particle in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ is bound by $N\geqslant1$ spatially distributed zero-range potentials is presented. Interactions between the particle and the potentials are modeled by subjecting a particle's bispinor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Radosław Szmytkowski

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