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Labelled Dirac notation is a formalism commonly used by physicists to represent many-body quantum systems and by computer scientists to assert properties of quantum programs. It is supported by a rich equational theory for proving equality…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Yingte Xu , Li Zhou , Gilles Barthe

Automated theorem proving, or more broadly automated reasoning, aims at using computer programs to automatically prove or disprove mathematical theorems and logical statements. It takes on an essential role across a vast array of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Zheng-Zhi Sun , Qi Ye , Dong-Ling Deng

The aim of this note is to recast somewhat informal axiom system of quantum mechanics used by physicists (Dirac calculus) in the language of Continuous Logic. We note an analogy between Tarski's notion of cylindric algebras, as a tool of…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Boris Zilber

An extension of the Dirac procedure for the quantization of constrained systems is necessary to address certain issues that are left open in Dirac's original proposal. These issues play an important role especially in the context of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Ashtekar , Ranjeet S. Tate

The theory of finite term algebras provides a natural framework to describe the semantics of functional languages. The ability to efficiently reason about term algebras is essential to automate program analysis and verification for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-10 Laura Kovacs , Simon Robillard , Andrei Voronkov

A quantum algorithm that solves the time-dependent Dirac equation on a digital quantum computer is developed and analyzed. The time evolution is performed by an operator splitting decomposition technique that allows for a mapping of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 F. Fillion-Gourdeau , S. MacLean , R. Laflamme

It is proposed that the Dirac equation, as normally interpreted, incorporates intrinsic redundancies whose removal necessarily leads to an enormous gain in calculating power and physical interpretation. Streamlined versions of the Dirac…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Rowlands

The Dirac method is used to analyze the classical and quantum dynamics of a particle constrained on a circle. The method of Lagrange multipliers is scrutinized, in particular in relation to the quantization procedure. Ordering problems are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Antonello Scardicchio

Using the example of a Dirac particle in external static fields, Dirac theory is reformulated as a one-particle quantum theory in the space of normalized two-component spinors. In this formulation, the Dirac operator ``splits'' into two…

General Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 N. L. Chuprikov

This talk describes how a combination of symbolic computation techniques with first-order theorem proving can be used for solving some challenges of automating program analysis, in particular for generating and proving properties about the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Laura Kovacs

The Dirac quantization `procedure' for constrained systems is well known to have many subtleties and ambiguities. Within this ill-defined framework, we explore the generality of a particular interpretation of the Dirac procedure known as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Domenico Giulini , Donald Marolf

We consider the use of Quantifier Elimination (QE) technology for automated reasoning in economics. QE dates back to Tarski's work in the 1940s with software to perform it dating to the 1970s. There is a great body of work considering its…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Casey B. Mulligan , Russell Bradford , James H. Davenport , Matthew England , Zak Tonks

This paper examines the application of Tarski's Undefinability Theorem to first-order arithmetic. The generally accepted view is that for this case the Theorem establishes that arithmetic truth is not arithmetic. A careful examination of…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Stephen Boyce

The Dirac equation is a cornerstone in the history of physics, merging successfully quantum mechanics with special relativity, providing a natural description of the electron spin and predicting the existence of anti-matter. Furthermore, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-08 R. Gerritsma , G. Kirchmair , F. Zähringer , E. Solano , R. Blatt , C. F. Roos

By using the general concepts of special relativity and the requirements of quantum mechanics, Dirac equation is derived and studied. Only elementary knowledge of spin and rotations in quantum mechanics and standard handlings of linear…

General Physics · Physics 2011-10-03 M. De Sanctis

From the point of view of canonical quantum gravity, it has become imperative to find a framework for quantization which provides a {\em general} prescription to find the physical inner product, and is flexible enough to accommodate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Ranjeet S. Tate

In this article, the axioms presented in the first one are reformulated according to the special theory of relativity. Using these axioms, quantum mechanic's relativistic equations are obtained in the presence of electromagnetic fields for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 L. S. F. Olavo

The way of finding all the constraints in the Hamiltonian formulation of singular (in particular, gauge) theories is called the Dirac procedure. The constraints are naturally classified according to the correspondig stages of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 D. M. Gitman , I. V. Tyutin

Dirac notation is the most common way to describe quantum states and operations on states. It is very convenient and allows for quick visual distinction between vectors, scalars and operators. For quantum processes that involve interactions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Boris Skoric , Zef Wolffs

Authoritative appraisals qualified this book as an axiomatic theory. However, being its essential content no more than an analogy, its theoretical organization cannot be an axiomatic one. In fact, in the first edition Dirac declares to…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Antonino Drago
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