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The one-particle Dirac Hamiltonian with Coulomb interaction is known to be realised, in a regime of large (critical) couplings, by an infinite multiplicity of distinct self-adjoint operators, including a distinguished, physically most…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Matteo Gallone , Alessandro Michelangeli

In this work we study Dirac operators on two-dimensional domains coupled to a magnetic field perpendicular to the plane. We focus on the infinite-mass boundary condition (also called MIT bag condition). In the case of bounded domains, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Jean-Marie Barbaroux , Loïc Le Treust , Nicolas Raymond , Edgardo Stockmeyer

In this article we develop a systematic approach to treat Dirac operators $A_{\eta, \tau, \lambda}$ with singular electrostatic, Lorentz scalar, and anomalous magnetic interactions of strengths $\eta, \tau, \lambda \in \mathbb{R}$,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Jussi Behrndt , Markus Holzmann , Christian Stelzer , Georg Stenzel

We develop an approach to prove self-adjointness of Dirac operators with boundary or transmission conditions at a $\mathcal{C}^2$-compact surface without boundary. To do so we are lead to study the layer potential induced by the Dirac…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos , Luis Vega

We analyze the limit of the spectrum of a geometric Dirac-type operator under a collapse with bounded diameter and bounded sectional curvature. In the case of a smooth limit space B, we show that the limit of the spectrum is given by the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John Lott

We consider a non-relativistic quantum particle interacting with a singular potential supported by two parallel straight lines in the plane. We locate the essential spectrum under the hypothesis that the interaction asymptotically…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-06-12 Sylwia Kondej , David Krejcirik

We explore the Hamiltonian operator H=-d^2/dx^2 + z \delta(x) where x is real, \delta(x) is the Dirac delta function, and z is an arbitrary complex coupling constant. For a purely imaginary z, H has a (real) spectral singularity at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ali Mostafazadeh

We theoretically study the stability of three dimensional Dirac semimetals against short-range electron-electron interaction and quenched time-reversal symmetric disorder (but excluding mass disorder). First we focus on the clean…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-23 Bitan Roy , Sankar Das Sarma

A formal fourth order differential operator with a singular coefficient that is a linear combination of the Dirac delta-function and its derivatives is considered. The asymptotic behavior of spectra and eigenfunctions of a family of…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2010-11-17 Stepan Man'ko

It has been recently shown that the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator can be considered as dynamical variables of Euclidean gravity. The purpose of this paper is to explore the possiblity that the eigenvalues of the Dirac operator might…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 I. V. Vancea

We study the (massless) Dirac operator on a 3-sphere equipped with Riemannian metric. For the standard metric the spectrum is known. In particular, the eigenvalues closest to zero are the two double eigenvalues +3/2 and -3/2. Our aim is to…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-10 Yan-Long Fang , Michael Levitin , Dmitri Vassiliev

We study localization and chirality properties of eigenvectors of the lattice Dirac operator. In particular we focus on the dependence of our observables on the size of the corresponding eigenvalue, which allows us to study the transition…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Christof Gattringer , Meinulf Goeckeler , P. E. L. Rakow , Stefan Schaefer , Andreas Schaefer

We investigate the properties of self-adjointness of a two-dimensional Dirac operator on an infinite sector with infinite mass boundary conditions and in presence of a Coulomb-type potential with the singularity placed on the vertex. In the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Biagio Cassano , Matteo Gallone , Fabio Pizzichillo

This paper is devoted to the approximation of two and three-dimensional Dirac operators $H_{\widetilde{V} \delta_\Sigma}$ with combinations of electrostatic and Lorentz scalar $\delta$-shell interactions in the norm resolvent sense. Relying…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Jussi Behrndt , Markus Holzmann , Christian Stelzer-Landauer

Let $\Gamma\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ be a piecewise smooth closed curve with corners. We discuss the asymptotic behavior of the individual eigenvalues of the two-dimensional Schr\"odinger operator $-\Delta-\alpha\delta_\Gamma$ for…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Badreddine Benhellal , Noah Körner , Konstantin Pankrashkin

We study spectral properties of the Dirac operator $L_0$ arising as the upper-right off-diagonal block in the linearization around standing wave solutions of the one-dimensional Soler model with power nonlinearity $f(s)=s|s|^{p-1}$, $p>0$.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Danko Aldunate , Julien Ricaud , Edgardo Stockmeyer

We consider an elliptic self-adjoint first order differential operator acting on pairs (2-columns) of complex-valued half-densities over a connected compact 3-dimensional manifold without boundary. The principal symbol of our operator is…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-05 Olga Chervova , Robert J. Downes , Dmitri Vassiliev

We consider half-line Dirac operators with operator data of Wigner-von Neumann type. If the data is a finite linear combination of Wigner-von Neumann functions, we show absence of singular continuous spectrum and provide an explicit set…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Ethan Gwaltney

We study a functional, whose critical points couple Dirac-harmonic maps from surfaces with a two form. The critical points can be interpreted as coupling the prescribed mean curvature equation to spinor fields. On the other hand, this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Volker Branding

We define Dirac operators on $\mathbb{S}^3$ (and $\mathbb{R}^3$) with magnetic fields supported on smooth, oriented links and prove self-adjointness of certain (natural) extensions. We then analyze their spectral properties and show, among…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Fabian Portmann , Jérémy Sok , Jan Philip Solovej