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The semiclassical kinetic theory of Dirac particles in the presence of external electromagnetic fields and global rotation is established. To provide the Hamiltonian formulation of Dirac particles a symplectic two-form which is a matrix in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-02 O. F. Dayi , E. Kilincarslan , E. Yunt

In this Thesis we develop the geometric formulations for higher-order autonomous and non-autonomous dynamical systems, and second-order field theories. In all cases, the physical information of the system is given in terms of a Lagrangian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-30 Pedro D. Prieto-Martínez

The Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the Bianchi Class A cosmological models is expressed generally in terms of the second-order differential equation like the Klein-Gordon equation. To obtain the positive-definite probability density, a new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hidetomo Yamazaki

The Hamilton-Jacobi equation of classical mechanics is approached as a model reduction of conservative particle mechanics where the velocity degrees-of-freedom are eliminated. This viewpoint allows an extension of the association of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Amit Acharya

Nonlocal Lotka-Volterra models have the property that solutions concentrate as Dirac masses in the limit of small diffusion. Is it possible to describe the dynamics of the limiting concentration points and of the weights of the Dirac…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Alexander Lorz , Sepideh Mirrahimi , Benoît Perthame

As a continuation of previous investigations, the formalism used there is extended to the case when an external electric field is present and the covariant formulation is performed again. The equation system obtained allows no restriction…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cornelius Lanczos

We derive a hydrodynamics formulation for a modified Dirac equation with a nonlinear mass term that preserves the homogeneity of the original Dirac equation. The nonlinear Dirac equation admits a symmetric split into the left and…

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We derive the Hamiltonian structure of the modified Hasegawa-Mima equation from the ion fluid equations applying Dirac's theory of constraints. We discuss the Casimirs obtained from the corresponding Poisson structure.

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-21 Cristel Chandre , Philip J. Morrison , Emanuele Tassi

The Dirac equation is generalized to $D+1$ space-time.The conserved angular momentum operators and their quantum numbers are discussed. The eigenfunctions of the total angular momenta are calculated for both odd $D$ and even $D$ cases. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xiao-Yan Gu , Zhong-Qi Ma , Shi-Hai Dong

We consider the motion of a point particle with spin in a stationary spacetime. We define, following Witzany (2019) and later Ramond (2022), a twelve dimensional Hamiltonian dynamical system whose orbits coincide with the solutions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Francisco M. Blanco , Éanna É. Flanagan

We construct so-called Darboux transformations and solutions of the dynamical Hamiltonian systems with several space variables $\frac{\partial \psi}{\partial t}=\sum_{k=1}^r H_k(t)\frac{\partial \psi}{\partial \zeta_k}\,$ $( H_k(t)=…

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We derive explicit semiclassical quantisation conditions for the Dirac and Pauli equations. We show that the spin degree of freedom yields a contribution which is of the same order of magnitude as the Maslov correction in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefan Keppeler

Parity preserving relativistic fluids in four spacetime dimensions admit seven independent thermodynamic susceptibilities at the second order in the hydrodynamic derivative expansion. We compute all parity-even second order thermodynamic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-18 Ashish Shukla

We present a systematic approach for the separation of variables for the two-dimensional Dirac equation in polar coordinates. The three vector potential, which couple to the Dirac spinor via minimal coupling, along with the scalar potential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 Hocine Bahlouli , Ahmed Jellal , Youness Zahidi

The v^2/c^2 expansion of the Dirac equation with external potentials is reexamined. A complete, gauge invariant form of the expansion to order (1/c)^2 is established which contains two additional terms, as compared to various versions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wlodek Zawadzki

We introduce a variational principle for field theories, referred to as the Hamilton-Pontryagin principle, and we show that the resulting field equations are the Euler-Lagrange equations in implicit form. Secondly, we introduce multi-Dirac…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-19 Joris Vankerschaver , Hiroaki Yoshimura , Melvin Leok

This paper focuses on the port-Hamiltonian formulation of systems described by partial differential equations. Based on a variational principle we derive the equations of motion as well as the boundary conditions in the well-known…

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We provide an alternative approach to relativistic dynamics based on the Feshbach projection technique. Instead of directly studying the Dirac equation, we derive a two-component equation for the upper spinor. This approach allows one to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-21 Da-Wei Luo , P. V. Pyshkin , Ting Yu , Hai-Qing Lin , J. Q. You , Lian-Ao Wu