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An interpretation of the ``halo problem'' in accelerators based on quantum-like diffraction is given. Comparison between this approach and the others based on classical mechanics equations is discussed.

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sameen Ahmed Khan , Modesto Pusterla

The advent of phenomenological quantum gravity has ushered us in the search for experimental tests of the deviations from general relativity predicted by quantum gravity or by string theories, and as a by--product of this quest the possible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Abel Camacho , Alfredo Macias

We study above-barrier scattering of Dirac electrons by a smooth electrostatic potential combined with a coordinate-dependent mass in graphene. We assume that the potential and mass are sufficiently smooth, so that we can define a small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 K. J. A. Reijnders , D. S. Minenkov , M. I. Katsnelson , S. Yu. Dobrokhotov

A rigorous \textit{ab initio} derivation of the (square of) Dirac's equation for a single particle with spin is presented. The general Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the particle expressed in terms of a background Weyl's conformal geometry is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Enrico Santamato

Geometric properties of operators of quantum Dirac constraints and physical observables are studied in semiclassical theory of generic constrained systems. The invariance transformations of the classical theory -- contact canonical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 A. O. Barvinsky

The planar quantum dynamics of spin-1/2 neutral particle interacting with electrical fields is considered. A set of first order differential equations are obtained directly from the planar Dirac equation with nonminimum coupling. New…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-10 F. S. Azevedo , Edilberto O. Silva , Luis B. Castro , Cleverson Filgueiras , D. Cogollo

The indeterministic character of physical laws is generally considered to be the most important consequence of quantum physics. A deterministic point of view, however, together with the possibility of well defined Hamiltonian trajectories,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-29 A. Orefice , R. Giovanelli , D. Ditto

The exact quantum-mechanical equations for beams of free particles including photons and for beams of Dirac and spin-1 particles in a uniform magnetic field have been derived. These equations present the exact generalizations of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 Alexander J. Silenko

General quantum-mechanical description of relativistic particles and nuclei with spin 1/2 channeled in bent crystals is performed with the use of the cylindrical coordinate system. The previously derived Dirac equation in this system is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-04 A. J. Silenko

When quantum fields are coupled to gravitational fields, spontaneous particle creation may occur similarly to when they are coupled to external electromagnetic fields. Gravitational fields can be incorporated as background spacetime if the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 C. Koke , C. Noh , D. G. Angelakis

The semiclassical approximation for the Hamiltonian of Dirac particles interacting with an arbitrary gravitational field is investigated. The time dependence of the metrics leads to new contributions to the in-band energy operator in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-19 Pierre Gosselin , Herve Mohrbach

The concept of elementary particle rests on the idea that it is a physical system with no excited states, so that all possible kinematical states of the particle are just kinematical modifications of any one of them. The way of describing…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Rivas

Kramers escape from a metastable state in the presence of both thermal and quantum fluctuations under strong damping is treated as a thermally activated process in a quantum modified semiclassical potential. Dirac's time-dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Choon-Lin Ho

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 develop the general theory of spinning particles with electric and magnetic dipole moments moving in arbitrary electromagnetic, inertial and gravitational fields. Both the quantum-mechanical and classical dynamics is investigated. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-15 Yuri N. Obukhov , Alexander J. Silenko , Oleg V. Teryaev

An electron behaves as both a particle and a wave. On account of this it can be controlled in a similar way to a photon and electronic devices can be designed in analogy to those based on light when there is minimal excitation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Michael Forrester , Fedor Kusmartsev

We study the Dirac equation minimally coupled to general relativity using quantum field theory and the semiclassical gravity approximation. Previous studies of the Einstein-Dirac system did not quantize the Dirac field and required multiple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Ben Kain

A quantum algorithm that solves the time-dependent Dirac equation on a digital quantum computer is developed and analyzed. The time evolution is performed by an operator splitting decomposition technique that allows for a mapping of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 F. Fillion-Gourdeau , S. MacLean , R. Laflamme

Gamma matrices for quantum Minkowski spaces are found. The invariance of the corresponding Dirac operator is proven. We introduce momenta for spin 1/2 particles and get (in certain cases) formal solutions of the Dirac equation.

q-alg · Mathematics 2009-10-30 P. Podles

An interpretation of the formation of halo in accelerators based on quantum-like theory by a diffraction model is given in terms of the transversal beam motion. Physical implications of the longitudinal dynamics are also examined.

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sameen Ahmed Khan , Modesto Pusterla