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The semiclassical limit for Dirac particles interacting with a static gravitational field is investigated. A Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation which diagonalizes at the semiclassical order the Dirac equation for an arbitrary static spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Pierre Gosselin , Alain Bérard , Herve Mohrbach

Exact solutions of the Dirac equation in external electromagnetic background fields are very helpful for understanding non-perturbative phenomena in quantum electrodynamics (QED). However, for the limited set of known solutions, the field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-24 Johannes Oertel , Ralf Schützhold

We consider the representations of the optical Dirac equation, especially ones where the Hamiltonian is purely real-valued. This is equivalent, for Maxwell's equations, to the Majorana representation of the massless Dirac (Weyl) equation.…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-15 Mark R Dennis , Teuntje Tijssen , Michael Morgan

Non-localities of Foldy-Wouthuysen and related transformations, which are used to separate positive and negative energy states in the Dirac equation, are investigated. Second moments of functional kernels generated by the transformations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 Tomasz M. Rusin , Wlodek Zawadzki

I propose three new curved spacetime versions of the Dirac Equation. These equations have been developed mainly to try and account in a natural way for the observed anomalous gyromagnetic ratio of Fermions. The derived equations suggest…

General Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. G. Nyambuya

The exact solution of the Dirac equation and the spectrum of electron quasi-energies in a superposition of the field of a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave and a homogeneous magnetic field parallel to the direction of wave…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. A. Melikian , D. P. Barber

Hardy's paradox is analysed within Feynman's formulation of quantum mechanics. A transition amplitude is represented as a sum over virtual paths which different intermediate measurements convert into different sets of real pathways.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Sokolovski , I. Puerto Gimenez , R. Sala Mayato

It has long been speculated that the Dirac or, more generally, the Dirac-Pauli spinor in the Foldy-Wouthuysen (FW) representation should behave like a classical relativistic spinor in the low-energy limit when the probability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-19 Dah-Wei Chiou , Tsung-Wei Chen

Dirac's equation of the electron will be discussed by using quaternions as the basis of a new formalism which seems to be very well adapted to the problem. The transformation properties of the equations as well as the invariant and…

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

Geometrical model for quantum objects is suggested. It is shown that equations for free material Dirac field and for Maxwell electromagnetic field can be considered as relations describing propagation of the space topological defects. This…

General Physics · Physics 2008-02-18 O. A. Olkhov

The four (electro-magnetic, weak, strong and gravitational) interactions are described by singular Lagrangians and by Dirac-Bergmann theory of Hamiltonian constraints. As a consequence a subset of the original configuration variables are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Luca Lusanna

In the study of the electronic structure of heavy atoms, relativistic effects cannot be neglected and the Dirac operator naturally appears in place of the Schr\"odinger operator, raising a number of additional difficulties. The complexity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Umberto Morellini

The present paper is the continuation of the paper "Nonlinear field theory I". In the paper it is shown that a fully correspondence between the quantum and the nonlinear electromagnetic forms of the Dirac electron theory exists, so that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander G. Kyriakos

In this paper we discuss in detail the interface between Classical Electrodynamics and Quantum Theory, which shows up as well known unphysical phenomena at the Compton scale in both the theories and argue that the photon of the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B G Sidharth

A new concept of geometrization of electromagnetic field is proposed. Instead of the concept of extended field and its point sources, the interacting Maxwellian and Dirac electron--positron fields are considered as a microscopic unified…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 O. A. Olkhov

The Dirac equation for an electron in two spatial dimensions in the Coulomb and homogeneous magnetic fields is discussed. For weak magnetic fields, the approximate energy values are obtained by semiclassical method. In the case with strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Choon-Lin Ho , V. R. Khalilov

The detailed consideration of the relativistic canonical quantum-mechanical model of an arbitrary spin-multiplet is given. The group-theoretical analysis of the algebra of experimentally observables physical quantities for the spin 1/2…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-29 I. Yu. Krivsky , V. M. Simulik , I. L. Lamer , T. M. Zajac

We study the interaction of electrons in graphene with the quantized electromagnetic field in the presence of an applied uniform electric field using the Dirac model of graphene. Electronic states are represented by exact solutions of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 N. Yokomizo

The physical fields (electromagnetic and electron fields) considered in the framework of Clifford algebras $\C_2$ and $\C_4$. The electron field described by the algebra $\C_4$ which in spinor representation is realized by well-known Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Vadim V. Varlamov

Maxwell and Dirac fields in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime is investigated using the Newman-Penrose method. The variables are all separable, with the angular dependence given by the spin-weighted spherical harmonics. All the radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 U. Khanal