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In this article we show that a Dirac Hamiltonian in a curved background spacetime can be interpreted, when discretized, as a tight binding Fermi-Hubbard model with non unitary tunnelings. We find the form of the nonunitary tunneling…

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Creation of charged fermion pair from a vacuum in the so-called supercritical Coulomb potential is examined for the case when created pair moves in one plane. In which case the quantum dynamics of charged massive or massless fermions can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 V. R. Khalilov

We introduce a new analytical method for studying the open quantum systems problem of a discrete system weakly coupled to an environment of harmonic oscillators. Our approach is based on a phase space representation of the density matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-27 Amir Fruchtman , Brendon W. Lovett , Simon C. Benjamin , Erik M. Gauger

Results are presented from numerical simulations of the flat-space nonlinear Maxwell-Klein-Gordon-Dirac equations. The introduction of a boson-fermion interaction allows a scalar vortex to act as a harmonic trap that can confine massive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-10 Ethan P. Honda

The phenomenon of vacuum decay, i.e. electron-positron pair production due to the instability of the quantum electrodynamics vacuum in an external field, is a remarkable prediction of Dirac theory whose experimental observation is still…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Stefano Longhi

We report on recent work concerning the effect which the change in vacuum structure (negative energy Dirac sea), in the presence of a confining scalar field, has on the nucleon structure functions and parton distributions. Using the Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 K. Tsushima , A. W. Thomas , G. V. Dunne

A dark energy component is responsible for the present stage of acceleration of our universe. If no fine tuning is assumed on the dark energy potential then it will end up dominating the universe at late times and the universe will not stop…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. de la Macorra

Spontaneous creation of electron-positron pairs out of the vacuum due to a strong electric field is a spectacular manifestation of the relativistic energy-momentum relation for the Dirac fermions. This fundamental prediction of Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 Nikodem Szpak , Ralf Schützhold

In paper within the model with a maximal mass M and with use of anti de Sitter space is considered the Dirac equation properties for a fermion of mass m on the mass surface. The paper shows that free Hamiltonian and Hamiltonian with…

General Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 V. P. Neznamov

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 study the emergence of Dirac fermionic field in the low energy description of non-relativistic dynamical models on graphs admitting continuum limit. The Dirac fermionic field appears as the effective field describing the excitations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Corneliu Sochichiu

In this article we review the quantization of the Dirac-field on a curved spacetime. For that purpose we describe the construction of the local observable algebras in the algebraic approach to quantum field theory. Among the possible states…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark Wellmann

Using a generalized Madelung transformation, we derive the hydrodynamic representation of the Dirac equation in arbitrary curved space-times coupled to an electromagnetic field. We obtain Dirac-Euler equations for fermions involving a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Tonatiuh Matos , Omar Gallegos , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Models in which dark energy interacts with dark matter have been proposed in the literature to help explain why dark energy should only come to dominate in recent times. In this paper, we present a dynamical framework to calculate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-12 Sirichai Chongchitnan

The usual method of solving the free particle Dirac equation results in the so called continuum energy solutions. Here, we take a different approach and find a set of solutions with quantized energies which are proportional to the total…

General Physics · Physics 2013-11-18 Thomas Edward Brennan

We present an approximate solution to the minimally coupled Einstein-Dirac equations. We interpret the solution as describing a massive fermion coexisting with its own gravitational field. The solution is axisymmetric but is time dependent.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-28 Jianwei Mei

Effects of fermion-vacuum polarization by a singular configuration of an external static vector field are considered in (2 + 1)-dimensional spacetime. Expressions for the induced vacuum charge and magnetic flux are obtained.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. A. Sitenko

Quantum dynamical lower bounds for continuous and discrete one-dimensional Dirac operators are established in terms of transfer matrices. Then such results are applied to various models, including the Bernoulli-Dirac one and, in contrast to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-08-08 Roberto A. Prado , Cesar R. de Oliveira

Quantum criticality within Dirac fermions harbors a plethora of exotic phenomena, attracting sustained attention in the past decades. Here, we explore the imaginary-time relaxation dynamics in a typical Dirac quantum criticality belonging…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-26 Yin-Kai Yu , Zhi Zeng , Yu-Rong Shu , Zi-Xiang Li , Shuai Yin

We discuss the low-energy dynamics of massless Dirac fermions interacting with a propagating, relativistic photon in 2+1 spacetime dimensions, when we turn on a uniform magnetic field. This problem can be solved when the magnetic field is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-06 Thomas T. Dumitrescu , Juan Maldacena