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We propose a manifestly Lorentz covariant, non-commutative Dirac equation for charged particles interacting with an electromagnetic field. The equation is formulated on the operator level, but operators are not composed through the normal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-05 P. H. Williams , F. G. Scholtz

We study generalized (1+1)-dimensional Dirac oscillator in nonuniform electric field. It is shown that in the case of specially chosen electric field the eigenvalue equation can be casted in the form of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 H. P. Laba , V. M. Tkachuk

We apply the covariant analytic mechanics with the differential forms to the Dirac field and the gravity with the Dirac field. The covariant analytic mechanics treats space and time on an equal footing regarding the differential forms as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-25 Satoshi Nakajima

It has been recently shown that in order to have Dirac eigenvalues as observables of Euclidean supergravity, certain constraints should be imposed on the covariant phase space as well as on Dirac eigenspinors. We investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Pauna , I. V. Vancea

The general solution of the Dirac equation for quasi-two-dimensional electrons confined in an asymmetric quantum well, is found. The energy spectrum of such a system is exactly calculated using special unitary transformation and shown to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 A. A. Eremko , L. S. Brizhik , V. M. Loktev

In this article we present the algebraic rearrangement, or matrix inversion of the Dirac equation in a curved Riemann-Cartan spacetime with torsion, the presence of non-vanishing torsion is implied by the intrinsic spin-1/2 of the Dirac…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-18 Shaun Inglis , Peter Jarvis

We employ the polar decomposition of the Dirac field to describe it as an effective spinorial fluid. We then construct a $(1+1+2)$ covariant formalism for the Dirac field that avoids the introduction of tetrad fields and Clifford matrices.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Stefano Vignolo , Giuseppe De Maria , Sante Carloni , Luca Fabbri

A new geometric approach to systems with boundary energy flow is developed using infinite-dimensional Dirac structures within the Lagrangian formalism. This framework satisfies a list of consistency criteria with the geometric setting of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 François Gay-Balmaz , Álvaro Rodríguez Abella , Hiroaki Yoshimura

The Dirac equation for an electron in a finite dipole potential has been studied within the method of linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO). The Coulomb potential of the nuclei that compose a dipole is regularized, by considering the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-27 O. O. Sobol

Some years ago, one of the authors~(MM) revived a concept to which he gave the name of single-particle Dirac oscillator, while another~(CQ) showed that it corresponds to a realization of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 M. Moshinsky , C. Quesne , Yu. F. Smirnov

It is shown that the hypercomplex Dirac equation describes the system of connected fields: 4-scalar, 4-pseudoscalar, 4-vector, 4-pseudo-vector and antisymmetric 4-tensor second rank field. If mass is assumed to be zero this system splits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. S. Karplyuk , O. O. Zhmudskyy

We demonstrate that neutral Dirac particles in external electric fields, which are equivalent to generalized Dirac oscillators, are physical examples of quasi-exactly solvable systems. Electric field configurations permitting quasi-exact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Choon-Lin Ho , Pinaki Roy

For the first time the exact analytical expressions for the three-dimensional bound electron states in the Coulomb field of the chain consisting of positively charged ions, are obtained within the Dirac description, using the new spinor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 Alexander Eremko , Larissa Brizhik , Vadim Loktev

The behavior of spin doublets is known to play a major role in nuclear structure and shell effects. Pseudo-spin doublets are also known to impact the single-particle spectrum. The covariant framework, having these two effects encoded in its…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-03 L. Heitz , J. P. Ebran , E. Khan

We obtain by invariance arguments the relativistic and non-relativistic invariant dynamical equations of a classical model of a spinning electron. We apply the formalism to a particular classical model which satisfies Dirac's equation when…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Rivas

After summarizing basic concepts for the exterior algebra we firstly discuss the gauge structure of the bundle over base manifold for deciding the form of the gravitational sector of the total Lagrangian in any dimensions. Then we couple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-17 Caglar Pala , Ertan Kok , Ozcan Sert , Muzaffer Adak

Dirac formalism of Hamiltonian constraint systems is studied for the noncommutative Abelian Proca field. It is shown that the system of constraints are of second class in agreement with the fact that the Proca field is not guage invariant.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 F. Darabi , F. Naderi

We investigate the possibility of coexistence between Dirac-like monopoles and Lorentz-violating electrodynamics. For this purpose, we study three distinct models: Myers-Pospelov, Ellis et al. and Gambini-Pullin. In particular, we find that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-30 Rodrigo Turcati , Eslley Scatena

An extension of the Dirac procedure for the quantization of constrained systems is necessary to address certain issues that are left open in Dirac's original proposal. These issues play an important role especially in the context of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Ashtekar , Ranjeet S. Tate

The Dirac eigenvalues form a subset of observables of the Euclidean gravity. The symplectic two-form in the covariant phase space could be expressed, in principle, in terms of the Dirac eigenvalues. We discuss the existence of the formal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. C. B. Abdalla , M. A. De Andrade , M. A. Santos , I. V. Vancea