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Motivated by traversable wormhole constructions that require large amounts of negative energy, we explore constraints on the amount of negative energy that can be carried by a free Dirac field in a slab-shaped region between two parallel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-21 Brian Swingle , Mark Van Raamsdonk

We investigate the semiclassical dynamics of massless Dirac fermions in 2+1 dimensions in the presence of external electromagnetic fields. By generalizing the $\alpha$ matrices to the spin-$S$ matrices and doing a certain scaling, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Moitri Maiti , R. Shankar

A new application of quantum field theory is developed that gives a description of the internal dynamics of dressed elementary particles and predicts their masses. The fermionic and bosonic quantum fields are treated as interdependent…

General Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 J. M. Greben

We consider the long standing problem in field theories of bosons that the boson vacuum does not consist of a `sea', unlike the fermion vacuum. We show with the help of supersymmetry considerations that the boson vacuum indeed does also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yoshinobu Habara , Holger B. Nielsen , Masao Ninomiya

In a recent paper [1] the Casimir energy was calculated for a massive dirac field in (1+1) dimensional space-time in the presence of an inverse square well potential and shown to be positive. It will be shown that this result violates a key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-05 Dan Solomon

We derive the relativistic chiral transport equation for massless fermions and antifermions by performing a semiclassical Foldy-Wouthuysen diagonalization of the quantum Dirac Hamiltonian. The Berry connection naturally emerges in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-24 Cristina Manuel , Juan M. Torres-Rincon

We revisit the quantum lattice gas model of a spinor quantum field theory-the smallest scale particle dynamics is partitioned into unitary collide and stream operations. The construction is covariant (on all scales down to a small length…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Jeffrey Yepez

We develop relativistic wave equations in the framework of the new non-hermitian ${\cal PT}$ quantum mechanics. The familiar Hermitian Dirac equation emerges as an exact result of imposing the Dirac algebra, the criteria of ${\cal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-02 Katherine Jones-Smith , Harsh Mathur

In quantum field theory there exist states for which the energy density is negative. It is important that these negative energy densities satisfy constraints, such as quantum inequalities, to minimize possible violations of causality, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Dan N. Vollick

In 2+1 dimensions there exists a duality between a charged Dirac particle coupled minimally to a background vector potential and a neutral one coupled nonminimally to a background electromagnetic field strength. A constant uniform…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Qiong-gui Lin

The Dirac-like equation governing dynamics of free anomalous fermions is derived. The basis bispinors controlling the obtained solutions of this equation turn out to be normalized by the area confining a region in the bispinor Clifford…

General Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 A. V. Koshelkin

The Dirac equation for massive free electrically neutral spin 1/2 particles in a gravitation field is considered. The secondary quantization procedure is applied to it and the Hilbert space of multiparticle quantum states is constructed.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ruslan Sharipov

The main fundamental principles characterizing the vacuum field structure are formulated and the modeling of the related vacuum medium and charged point particle dynamics by means of devised field theoretic tools are analyzed. The work is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 Nikolai N. Bogolubov, , Anatoliy K. Prykarpatsky

Some aspects of the theory of fermions living on three dimensional spacetime with a flat co-dimension one boundary are discussed, particularly a case where the boundary condition preserves scale and translation invariance but violates the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-21 Gordon W. Semenoff

Relativistic spin-1/2 particles in curved spacetime are naturally described by Dirac theory, which is a dynamical and Lorentz-invariant field theory. In this work, we propose a non-dynamical fermion theory in 3+1 dimensions dubbed spinor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Giandomenico Palumbo

Schr\"{o}dinger (Nature, v.169, 538 (1952)) noted that the complex matter field in the Klein-Gordon equation can be made real by a gauge transform, although charged fields are believed to require complex functions. Surprisingly, the result…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-21 A. Akhmeteli

We study Dirac fermions at finite density coupled to a complex pairing field assumed to obey scalar field theory with quartic self-repulsion. The bulk of our work develops the mathematics that elucidates the propagation of fermionic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Laith H. Haddad

We derive a Lagrangian density of Dirac field by employing the local gauge invariance and the Maxwell equation as the fundamental principle. The only assumption made here is that the fermion field should have four components. The present…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Fujita , S. Kanemaki , S. Oshima

It is proposed to make formulation of second quantizing a bosonic theory by generalizing the method of filling the Dirac negative energy sea for fermions. We interpret that the correct vacuum for the bosonic theory is obtained by adding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Holger B. Nielsen , Masao Ninomiya

Fermion-number fractionalization without breaking of time-reversal symmetry was recently demonstrated for a field theory in $(2+1)$-dimensional space and time that describes the couplings between massive Dirac fermions, a complex-valued…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-07 Claudio Chamon , Chang-Yu Hou , Roman Jackiw , Christopher Mudry , So-Young Pi , Gordon Semenoff