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The nonlinear interaction between intense laser light and a quantum plasma is modeled by a collective Dirac equation coupled with the Maxwell equations. The model is used to study the nonlinear propagation of relativistically intense laser…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Bengt Eliasson , Padma K. Shukla

Negative masses have long been explored, but their observational viability remains unclear. In this work, we develop a unified, observationally testable framework to constrain negative masses using both coupling level and dynamical probes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Oem Trivedi , Abraham Loeb

We give a geometrical derivation of the Dirac equation by considering a spin-1/2 particle travelling with the speed of light in a cubic spacetime lattice. The mass of the particle acts to flip the multi-component wavefunction at the lattice…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Jack Ng , H. van Dam

In this paper we show for the first time the phenomenon of negative reflection in a simple mechanical structure. The latter is a grating of fixed inclusions embedded in a linear elastic matrix. Numerical analyses for out-of-plane shear…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 Bibinur Meirbekova , Lorenzo Morini , Michele Brun , Giorgio Carta

Radiation pressure and photon momentum in negative-index media are no different than their counterparts in ordinary (positive-index) materials. This is because the parameters responsible for these properties are the admittance,…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-12 Masud Mansuripur , Armis R. Zakharian

In this Letter the expression for the refractive index of de Broglie wave in the presence of a potential field is obtained and based on this, the physical meanings of negative index of refraction is revealed. We demonstrate that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian Qi Shen

There are a number of papers dedicated to the description of free particles and antiparticles with zero mass and spin 1/2. A great many equations with different C, P, T properties have been proposed and the impression could be formed that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wilhelm I. Fushchych , Anatoly G. Nikitin

A dynamical model for the collapse of the wave function in a quantum measurement process is proposed by considering the interaction of a quantum system (spin-1/2) with a macroscopic quantum apparatus interacting with an environment in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Venugopalan , Deepak Kumar , R. Ghosh

In two-component non-linear Schr\"odinger equations, the force exerted by incident monochromatic plane waves on an embedded dark soliton and on dark-bright-type solitons is investigated, both perturbatively and by numerical simulations.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-03-04 Dominik Ciurla , Péter Forgács , Árpád Lukács , Tomasz Romańczukiewicz

Dirac's equation for a massless particle is conformal invariant, and accordingly has an so(4,2)invariance algebra. It is known that although Dirac's equation for a massive spin 1/2 particle is not conformal invariant, it too has an so(4,2)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Bracken

We consider in detail a possibility that the observed neutrino oscillations are due to refraction on ultralight scalar boson dark matter. We introduce the refractive mass squared, $\tilde{m}^2$, and study its properties: dependence on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-13 Manibrata Sen , Alexei Y. Smirnov

We present a model which provides a plausible explanation of the effect of zero-resistance and zero-conductance states in two-dimensional electron systems subjected to a magnetic field and irradiated with microwaves observed in a number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Ryzhii , A. Chaplik , R. Suris

This research focuses on a coherently driven four-level atomic medium with the aim of inducing a negative index of refraction while taking into consideration local field corrections as well as magnetoelectric cross coupling, i.e. chirality,…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-06 F. Bello

We argue that the free electron and positron can be considered as different, independent particles, each of which is characterized by the complete set of the Dirac plane waves. This completely symmetric representation of the particles makes…

General Physics · Physics 2016-06-21 A. I. Agafonov

This short article sets out some of the basic considerations that go into detecting the mass of quasiparticles with effective magnetic charge in solids. Effective magnetic charges may be appear as defects in particular magnetic textures. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-01 N. P. Armitage

Refraction of obliquely incident plane waves due to the interface of a vacuous half-space and a half-space occupied by a simply moving, nondissipative, isotropic dielectric-magnetic medium is considered, when the medium's velocity lies…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

For a spin-1/2 particle moving in a background magnetic field in noncommutative phase space, Dirac equation is solved when the particle is allowed to move off the plane that the magnetic field is perpendicular to. It is shown that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Mai-Lin Liang , Ya-Bin Zhang , Rui-Lin Yang , Fu-Lin Zhang

The relativistic wave equation for spin-1/2 particles in the interior Schwarzschild solution in the presence of a uniform magnetic field is obtained. The fully relativistic regime is considered, and the energy levels occupied by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-01 Fayçal Hammad , Alexandre Landry , Parvaneh Sadeghi

A statistical analysis of optimal universal cloning shows that it is possible to identify an ideal (but non-positive) copying process that faithfully maps all properties of the original Hilbert space onto two separate quantum systems. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-18 Holger F. Hofmann

The physical property of mass has two distinct aspects, gravitational mass and inertial mass. The weight of a particle depends on its gravitational mass. According to the weak form of the equivalence principle, the gravitational and…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fran De Aquino