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We have studied a relativistically covariant Stern-Gerlach (SG) experiment for a relativistic spin and a Dirac spin. We have obtained the relativistic spin in an arbitrary frame by using the classical spin dipole tensor, which gives the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-04 Taeseung Choi , Yeong Deok Han

We consider the optical and transport properties in a model two-dimensional Hamiltonian which describes the merging of two Dirac points. At low energy, in the presence of an energy gap parameter $\Delta$, there are two distinct Dirac points…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-09 J. P. Carbotte , E. J. Nicol

We study quantum dynamics of a kicked relativistic spin-half particle in a one dimensional box. Time-dependence of the average kinetic energy and evolution of the wave packet are explored. Kicking potential is introduced as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-05 V. E. Eshniyazov , D. U. Matrasulov , J. R. Yusupov

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

DIRAC is a freely distributed general-purpose program system for 1-, 2- and 4-component relativistic molecular calculations at the level of Hartree--Fock, Kohn--Sham (including range-separated theory), multiconfigurational…

Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations are the motion equations for relativistic particles with spin 0 (so-called scalar particles) and 1/2 (electron/positron) respectively. For a free particle, the Dirac equation is derived from the Klein-Gordon…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-16 Marie-Noëlle Célérier , Laurent Nottale

The relativistic spinning particle model, proposed in [3,4], is analyzed in a Hamiltonian framework. The spin is simulated by extending the configuration space by introducing a light-like four vector degree of freedom. The model is heavily…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Sudipta Das , Subir Ghosh

I present a review of the Dirac equation in general relativity. Although the generalization of the Dirac equation to a curved spacetime is well known, it is not usually part of the standard toolkit of techniques known to people working on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Miguel Alcubierre

This article studies the breaking of the Lorentz symmetry at the Planck length in quantum mechanics. We use three-dimensional p-adic vectors as position variables, while the time remains a real number. In this setting, the Planck length is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 W. A. Zúñiga-Galindo

In the context of the composite boson interpretation, we construct the exact general solution of the Dirac--K\"ahler equation for the case of the spherical Riemann space of constant positive curvature, for which due to the geometry itself…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 A. M. Ishkhanyan , O. Florea , E. M. Ovsiyuk , V. M. Red'kov

% Doubly Special Relativity (DSR) introduces, besides the invariant speed of light $c$, an observer-independent high-energy % scale that deforms relativistic kinematics and can be implemented through modified dispersion relations or…

General Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Abdelmalek Boumali , Nosratollah Jafari

A strongly interacting plasma of linearly dispersing electron and hole excitations in two spatial dimensions (2D), also known as a Dirac fluid, can be captured by relativistic hydrodynamics and shares many universal features with other…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-19 Yan-Qi Wang , Roman Rausch , Christoph Karrasch , Joel E. Moore

We investigate the relativistic generalization of the classical St\"{o}rmer problem, which describes the motion of charged particles in a purely magnetic dipole field. By incorporating special relativistic effects, the particle dynamics is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-07 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo

A basic problem in linear particle optics is to find a symplectic transformation that brings the (symmetric) beam matrix to a special diagonal form, called normal form. The conventional way to do this involves an eigenvalue-decomposition of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 Herbert E. Müller

Fractional dynamics of relativistic particle is discussed. Derivatives of fractional orders with respect to proper time describe long-term memory effects that correspond to intrinsic dissipative processes. Relativistic particle subjected to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-03-31 Vasily E. Tarasov

We introduce a reduced model for a real sector of complexified Ashtekar gravity that does not correspond to a subset of Einstein's gravity but for which the programme of canonical quantization can be carried out completely, both, via the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Thiemann

We develop a relativistic free wave equation on the complexified quaternions, linear in the derivatives. Even if the wave functions are only one-component, we show that four independent solutions, corresponding to those of the Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Stefano De Leo

We solve the quaternionic Dirac equation ($\mathbbm H$DE) in the real Hilbert space, and we ascertain that their free particle solutions set comprises eight elements in the case of a massive particle, and a four elements solution set in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Sergio Giardino

We give from first principles the non-relativistic limit of scalar and Dirac fields in curved spacetime. We aim to find general relativistic corrections to the quantum theory of particles affected by Newtonian gravity, a regime nowadays…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-06 Riccardo Falcone , Claudio Conti

A generalization of the standard model of Dirac particle in external electromagnetic field is proposed. In the generalization we take into account interactions of this particle with environment, which is described by the memory function.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 Vasily E. Tarasov