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We analyze the coherence properties of a cold or a thermal neutron by utilizing the Wigner quasidistribution function. We look in particular at a recent experiment performed by Badurek {\em et al.}, in which a polarized neutron crosses a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Facchi , A. Mariano , S. Pascazio

The Dirac equation for a massive spin-1/2 field in a central potential V in three dimensions is studied without fixing a priori the functional form of V. The second-order equations for the radial parts of the spinor wave function are shown…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Giampiero Esposito , Pietro Santorelli

We report exact results for the partition function for free Dirac fermions on a half line with physically sensible boundary conditions. An exact effective action for general backscattering amplitudes is derived. The action also includes the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Manuel Fuentes , Ana Lopez , Eduardo Fradkin

A systematic study of chiral effects is presented using an Effective Field Theory framework. By integrating out a massive Dirac fermion at finite temperature in presence of vector and axial background fields, the currents and their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Rémy Larue , Amaury Marchon , Jérémie Quevillon , Diego Saviot

It is proved that fermions can acquire the mass through the additional non-integrable exponential factor. For this propose the special vector potential associated with the spinor field was introduced. Such a vector potential has close…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Liu Yufen

In Wigner function approach with relaxation time approximation, we calculate electric and magnetic conductivities of a fermion system in the strong magnetic field. The linear response has been calculated to the perturbation of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-21 Hao-Hao Peng , Xin-Li Sheng , Shi Pu , Qun Wang

Exact solutions of the Dirac--Pauli equation for massive neutrino with anomalous magnetic moment interacting with dense matter and strong electromagnetic field are found. The complete system of neutrino wavefunctions, which show spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-02 E. V. Arbuzova , A. E. Lobanov , E. M. Murchikova

It is possible to improve the chiral behaviour and the approach to the continuum limit of correlation functions in lattice QCD with standard and twisted Wilson fermions by taking arithmetic averages of correlators computed in theories…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Frezzotti , G. C. Rossi

We consider the Dirac field in polar formulation, showing that when torsion is taken in effective approximation the theory has the thermodynamic properties of a van der Waals gas, that when the limit of zero chiral angle is taken the theory…

General Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Luca Fabbri

Weyl fermions with nonlinear dispersion have appeared in real world systems, such as in the Weyl semi-metals and topological insulators. We consider the most general form of Dirac operators, and study its topological properties embedded in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Ho-Ung Yee , Piljin Yi

Recently, properties of the fixed point action for fermion theories have been pointed out indicating realization of chiral symmetry on the lattice. We check these properties by numerical analysis of the spectrum of a parametrized fixed…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Farchioni , I. Hip , C. B. Lang , M. Wohlgenannt

We consider Pauli--Dirac fermion submitted to an inhomogeneous magnetic field. It is showed that the propagator of the neutral Dirac particle with an anomalous magnetic moment in an external linear magnetic field is the causal Green…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Abdeldjalil Merdaci , Ahmed Jellal , Lyazid Chetouani

We calculate the Wigner function for charged spin-1 particles in inhomogeneous classical electromagnetic fields, going to first order in a power series in $\hbar$. The Boltzmann equation for the scalar distribution function obtained from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-29 David Wagner , Nora Weickgenannt , Enrico Speranza

The Dirac equation is considered in the background of potentials of several types, namely scalar and vector-potentials as well as "Dirac-oscillator" potential or some of its generalisations. We investigate the radial Dirac equation within a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Brihaye , A. Nininahazwe

We test exact and approximate Ginsparg-Wilson fermions with respect to their chiral and scaling behavior in the 2-flavor Schwinger model. We first consider explicit approximate GW fermions in a short range, then we proceed to their chiral…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 W. Bietenholz , I. Hip

The Wigner function $W_N({\bf x}, {\bf p})$ is a useful quantity to characterize the quantum fluctuations of an $N$-body system in its phase space. Here we study $W_N({\bf x}, {\bf p})$ for $N$ noninteracting spinless fermions in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-28 Benjamin De Bruyne , David S. Dean , Pierre Le Doussal , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

The recently proposed Wigner function for a particle in an infinite lattice [NJP 14, 103009 (2012)] is extended here to include an internal degree of freedom, as spin. The formalism is developed to account for dynamical processes, with or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-26 M. Hinarejos , M. C. Bañuls , A. Pérez

We consider a theory of fermions interacting with a (in general, non-Abelian) gauge field. The theory is assumed to be essentially inhomogeneous, which might be provided by non-trivial background fields interacting with both fermions and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-06 Praveen D. Xavier , M. A. Zubkov

We study the statistical mechanics of counterion Wigner crystals associated with hexagonal bundles of chiral biopolymers. We show that, due to spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking induced by frustration, these Wigner crystals would be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Gregory M. Grason , Robijn F. Bruinsma

We have developed a systematic approach to calculate the correlation function for spin-1/2 particles, incorporating both central and noncentral components of the interparticle interaction. This is achieved by extending the variable phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-13 Renjie Zou , Sheng Xiao , Zhi Qin , Zhigang Xiao