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Presented is a quantum computing representation of Dirac particle dynamics. The approach employs an operator splitting method that is an analytically closed-form product decomposition of the unitary evolution operator. This allows the Dirac…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-16 Jeffrey Yepez

The Dirac oscillator is a relativistic quantum system, characterized by its linearity in both position and momentum. Moreover, considering $(1{+}1)$ and $(2{+}1)$ dimensions, the system can be mapped onto the Jaynes-Cummings and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Thiago T. Tsutsui , Alison A. Silva , Antonio S. M. de Castro , Fabiano M. Andrade

In this paper we intend to extend some ideas of a recently proposed Lorentz-invariant Bohmian model, obeying Klein-Gordon equations, but considering particles with a spin different than zero. First we build a Bohmian model for a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-09 Sergio Hernández-Zapata

We propose a form for the action of a relativistic particle subject to a positional force that is invariant under time reparametrization and therefore allows for a consistent Hamiltonian formulation of the dynamics. This approach can be…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 S. Mignemi

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

Though quantum algorithm acts as an important role in quantum computation science, not only for providing a great vision for solving classically unsolvable problems, but also due to the fact that it gives a potential way of understanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Xiang Zhan , Jian Li , Hao Qin , Zhihao Bian , Peng Xue

We point out a formal analogy between the Dirac equation in Majorana form and the discrete-velocity version of the Boltzmann kinetic equation. By a systematic analysis based on the theory of operator splitting, this analogy is shown to turn…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-19 F. Fillion-Gourdeau , H. J. Herrmann , M. Mendoza , S. Palpacelli , S. Succi

Classical objects have been excluded as subjects of the observed quantum properties, and the related problem of quantum objects nature has been suspended since the early days of Quantum Theory. Recent experiments show that the problem could…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-06 Artur Szczepanski

We present a semiclassical analysis for Dirac fields on an arbitrary spacetime background and in the presence of a fixed electromagnetic field. Our approach is based on a Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation, and the results are analyzed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-16 Marius A. Oancea , Achal Kumar

The so-called Dirac oscillator was proposed as a modification of the free Dirac equation which reproduces many of the properties of the simple harmonic oscillator but accompanied by a strong spin-orbit coupling term. It has yet to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 C. R. Hagen

A perturbation method to analytically describe the dynamics of a classical spinning particle, based on the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon (MPD) equations of motion, is presented. By a power series expansion with respect to the particle's spin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Dinesh Singh

Quantum dynamics of a Dirac particle in a 1D box with moving wall is studied. Dirac equation with time-dependent boundary condition is mapped onto that with static one, but with time-dependent mass. Exact analytical solution of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-20 J. Dittrich , S. Rakhmanov , D. Matrasulov

The rotating frame is considered in quantum mechanics on the basis of the position dependent boost relating this frame to the non rotating inertial frame. We derive the Sagnac phase shift and the spin coupling with the rotation in the non…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeeva Anandan , Jun Suzuki

After a revision of the main features of the structure of the Dirac electron a plausible definition of elementary particle is stated. It is shown that this definition leads in the classical case to a picture which produces a very clear…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Rivas

We study the classical dynamics of a particle in Snyder spacetime, adopting the formalism of constrained Hamiltonian systems introduced by Dirac. We show that the motion of a particle in a scalar potential is deformed with respect to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-22 S. Mignemi

Advantageous numerical methods for solving the Dirac equations are derived. They are based on different stochastic optimization techniques, namely the Genetic algorithms, the Particle Swarm Optimization and the Simulated Annealing method,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Ioannis G. Tsoulos , O. T. Kosmas , V. N. Stavrou

We study the Dirac oscillator for spin-1/2 particles in a spacetime containing a spinning cosmic string endowed with both curvature (disclination) and torsion (screw dislocation). The background geometry includes off-diagonal and is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-29 Abdelmalek Boumali

The Dirac equation is a paradigmatic model that describes a range of intriguing properties of relativistic spin-1/2 particles, from the existence of antiparticles to Klein tunneling. However, the Dirac-like equations have found application…

The imaginary part of the quantum geometric tensor is the Berry curvature, while the real part is the quantum metric. Dirac fermions derived from a tight-binding model naturally contains a mass term $m(k)$ with parabolic dispersion, $m(k)=$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Motohiko Ezawa

In quantum mechanics, the space-fractional Schr\"{o}dinger equation provides a natural extension of the standard Schr\"{o}dinger equation when the Brownian trajectories in Feynman path integrals are replaced by Levy flights. Here an optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 Stefano Longhi