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More then 35 approaches to the Dirac equation derivation are presented. The various physical principles and mathematical methods are used. A review of well-known and not enough known contributions to the problem is given, the unexpected and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 V. M. Simulik

We derive the vector-like four dimensional overlap Dirac operator starting from a five dimensional Dirac action in the presence of a delta-function space-time defect. The effective operator is obtained by first integrating out all the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 C. D. Fosco , G. Torroba , H. Neuberger

Based on the relation to random matrix theory, exact expressions for all microscopic spectral correlators of the Dirac operator can be computed from finite-volume partition functions. This is illustrated for the case of $SU(N_c)$ gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 P. H. Damgaard

A simple translation between a standard representation of $\mathfrak{sl}_2\mathbb{C}$ and the complex-quaternions ($\mathbb{H}\otimes_\mathbb{R}\mathbb{C}$) is established and exploited to construct a novel hyper-complex description of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 James Henry Atwater , David Lambert , Yuri Rostovtsev

We consider the Dirac equation in flat Minkowski 3-space and rewrite it as the Maxwell equation in Minkowski 4-space with torsion. The torsion tensor is defined as the dual of the electromagnetic vector potential. Our model clearly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitri Vassiliev

The Dirac equation with Lorentz violation involves additional coefficients and yields a fourth-order polynomial that must be solved to yield the dispersion relation. The conventional method of taking the determinant of $4\times 4$ matrices…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Don Colladay , Patrick McDonald , David Mullins

We consider the following first order systems of mathematical physics. 1.The Dirac equation with scalar potential. 2.The Dirac equation with electric potential. 3.The Dirac equation with pseudoscalar potential. 4.The system describing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Viktor G. Kravchenko , Vladislav V. Kravchenko

We consider the long standing problem in field theories of bosons that the boson vacuum does not consist of a `sea', unlike the fermion vacuum. We show with the help of supersymmetry considerations that the boson vacuum indeed does also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yoshinobu Habara , Holger B. Nielsen , Masao Ninomiya

We present the Dirac equation in a geometry with torsion and non-metricity balancing generality and simplicity as much as possible. In doing so, we use the vielbein formalism and the Clifford algebra. We also use an index-free formalism…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-28 J. B. Formiga , C. Romero

Earlier we have shown that interacting electron-positron and electromagnetic fields can be considered as a certain microscopic distortion of pseudo-Euclidean properties of the Minkovsky 4-space-time. The known Dirac and Maxwell equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 O. A. Olkhov

Using a generalized Madelung transformation, we derive the hydrodynamic representation of the Dirac equation in arbitrary curved space-times coupled to an electromagnetic field. We obtain Dirac-Euler equations for fermions involving a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Tonatiuh Matos , Omar Gallegos , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We discuss the use of the variational principle within quaternionic quantum mechanics. This is non-trivial because of the non commutative nature of quaternions. We derive the Dirac Lagrangian density corresponding to the two-component Dirac…

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

We show how the Dirac equation in three space-dimensions emerges from the large-scale dynamics of the minimal nontrivial quantum cellular automaton satisfying unitariety, locality, homogeneity, and discrete isotropy, without using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 G. M. D'Ariano , P. Perinotti

We study the influence of a strong imaginary vector potential on the quantum mechanics of particles confined to a two-dimensional plane and propagating in a random impurity potential. We show that the wavefunctions of the non-Hermitian…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 Christopher Mudry , B. D. Simons , Alexander Altland

The eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on a curved spacetime are diffeomorphism-invariant functions of the geometry. They form an infinite set of ``observables'' for general relativity. Recent work of Chamseddine and Connes suggests that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Giovanni Landi , Carlo Rovelli

Since the particles such as molecules, atoms and nuclei are composite particles, it is important to recognize that physics must be invariant for the composite particles and their constituent particles, this requirement is called particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Y. Cui

The Dirac equation may be thought as originating from a theory of five-dimensional (5D) space-time. We define a special 5D Clifford algebra and introduce a spin-1/2 constraint equation to describe null propagation in a 5D space-time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-22 Romulus Breban

The reduction formulas for Dirac fermions are derived, using the exact solutions of free Dirac equation on de Sitter spacetime. In the framework of the perturbation theory one studies the Green functions and derive the scatering amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Cosmin Crucean , Radu Racoceanu

We argue that quaternions form a natural language for the description of quantum-mechanical wavefunctions with spin. We use the quaternionic spinor formalism which is in one-to-one correspondence with the usual spinor language. No…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Pavel A. Bolokhov

The "spin-up" and "spin-down" projections of the second order, chiral form of Dirac Theory are shown to fit a superposition of forms predicted in an earlier classical, complex scalar gauge theory (April, 1992 Class. Quantum Grav.). In some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-30 J. E. Rankin