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This article is concerned with the role of fundamental principles in theoretical physics, especially quantum theory. The fundamental principles of relativity will be be addressed as well in view of their role in quantum electrodynamics and…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Arkady Plotnitsky

The similarity renormalization group is used to transform a general Dirac Hamiltonian into diagonal form. The diagonal Dirac operator consists of the nonrelativistic term, the spin-orbit term, the dynamical term, and the relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-09-09 Jian-You Guo , Shou-Wan Chen , Zhong-Ming Niu , Dong-Peng Li , Quan Liu

The present work is a brief review of the recent development in the relativistic quantum mechanics in the $(1/2)\oplus (0,1/2)$ representation space. It can be useful for graduate students in particle physics and quantum field theory.

General Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Valeri V. Dvoeglazov

By starting from the modified Maxwell theory coupled to gravity, the arising of geometric quantum phases in the relativistic and nonrelativistic quantum dynamics of a Dirac neutral particle from the effects of the violation of the Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-24 H. Belich , K. Bakke

After a review of the problems induced by the Lorentz signature of Minkowski space-time, like the need of a clock synchronization convention for the definition of 3-space and the complexity of the notion of relativistic center of mass,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Luca Lusanna

A candidate for a realistic relativistic quantum theory is the hypersurface Bohm-Dirac model. Its formulation uses a foliation of spacetime into space-like hypersurfaces. This structure may well arise from the universal wave function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-11 Detlef Dürr , Matthias Lienert

This short review summarizes recent developments and results in connection with point-form dynamics of relativistic quantum systems. We discuss a Poincare invariant multichannel formalism which describes particle production and annihilation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-03-07 Elmar P. Biernat , William H. Klink , Wolfgang Schweiger

The quantum mechanical formalism for position and momentum of a particle in a one dimensional cyclic lattice is constructively developed. Some mathematical features characteristic of the finite dimensional Hilbert space are compared with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. C. de la Torre , D. Goyeneche

In this chapter we focus first on the theoretical methods and relevant computational approaches to calculate the electronic structure of atoms, molecules, and clusters containing heavy elements for which relativistic effects become…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Simone Taioli , Stefano Simonucci

We treat space and time as bona fide quantum degrees of freedom on an equal footing in Hilbert space. Motivated by considerations in quantum gravity, we focus on a paradigm dealing with linear, first-order Hamiltonian and momentum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Ashmeet Singh

The traditional approach to accelerator optics, based mainly on classical mechanics, is working excellently from the practical point of view. However, from the point of view of curiosity, as well as with a view to explore quantitatively the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Jagannathan

A new formulation of relativistic quantum mechanics is presented and applied to a free, massive, and spin zero elementary particle in the Minkowski spacetime. The reformulation requires that time and space, as well as the timelike and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Bao D. Tran , Zdzislaw E. Musielak

We present a way to derive a deformation of special relativistic kinematics (possible low energy signal of a quantum theory of gravity) from the geometry of a maximally symmetric curved momentum space. The deformed kinematics is fixed (up…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-02 J. M. Carmona , J. L. Cortes , J. J. Relancio

Relativistic theory of the Cox's scalar not point-like particle with intrinsic structure is developed on the background of arbitrary curved space-time. It is shown that in the most general form, the extended Proca-like tensor first order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 O. V. Veko , K. V. Kazmerchuk , E. M. Ovsiyuk , V. V. Kisel , V. M. Red'kov

This book is an attempt to build a consistent relativistic quantum theory of interacting particles. In the first part of the book "Quantum electrodynamics" we follow rather traditional approach to particle physics. Our discussion proceeds…

General Physics · Physics 2016-03-15 Eugene V. Stefanovich

We offer a clear physical explanation for the emergence of the quantum operator formalism, by revisiting the role of the vacuum field in quantum mechanics. The vacuum or random zero-point radiation field has been shown previously, using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Ana María Cetto , Luis de la Peña , Andrea Valdés-Hernández

We use Dirac's method for the quantization of constrained systems in order to quantize a spatially flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker spacetime in the context of $f(Q)$ cosmology. When the coincident gauge is considered, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-22 N. Dimakis , A. Paliathanasis , T. Christodoulakis

In this article we formulate several conjectures concerning the lowest eigenvalue of a Dirac operator with an external electrostatic potential. The latter describes a relativistic quantum electron moving in the field of some (pointwise or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Maria J. Esteban , Mathieu Lewin , Eric Séré

Quantum simulation is a powerful tool to study a variety of problems in physics, ranging from high-energy physics to condensed-matter physics. In this article, we review the recent theoretical and experimental progress in quantum simulation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-28 Dan-Wei Zhang , Zi-Dan Wang , Shi-Liang Zhu

There were many attempts to geometrize electromagnetic field and find out new interpretation for quantum mechanics formalism. The distinctive feature of this work is that it combines geometrization of electromagnetic field and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 O. A. Ol'khov