In physics, the Majorana equation is a relativistic wave equation. It is named after the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana, who proposed it in 1937 as...

ship from Naples to Palermo. The Majorana equation and Majorana fermions are named after him. In 2006, the Majorana Prize was established in his memory...

two-component Majorana equation. The Majorana equation is conventionally written as a four-component real equation, rather than a two-component complex equation; the...

Majorana's suggestion in 1937 that electrically neutral spin-⁠1/2⁠ particles can be described by a real-valued wave equation (the Majorana equation)...

and the field must be a gravitino. "Weyl" and "Majorana" versions of the Rarita–Schwinger equation also exist. Consider a massless Rarita–Schwinger...

application of Lorentz group theory. Majorana produced other important contributions that were unpublished, including wave equations of various dimensions (5, 6...

momentum. The Dirac equation is Lorentz covariant. Articulating this helps illuminate not only the Dirac equation, but also the Majorana spinor and Elko spinor...

non-complexified version of Cℓ2,2( R {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} } ), the Majorana spinor. There also does not seem to be any particular prohibition to having...

pairing of Dirac spinor to its "exact opposite". Dirac equation Weyl equation Majorana equation Helicity basis Spin(1,3), the double cover of SO(1,3) by...

Wheeler–DeWitt equation for theoretical physics and applied mathematics, is a field equation attributed to John Archibald Wheeler and Bryce DeWitt. The equation attempts...

include both Dirac and Majorana terms; this is done in the seesaw mechanism (below). In addition to satisfying the Majorana equation, if the neutrino were...

Lorentz group. Thus, much of what is said below can be applied to the Majorana equation. Bispinors are elements of a 4-dimensional complex vector space (⁠1/2⁠...

honour of another scientist of the island, Ettore Majorana known for the Majorana equation and Majorana fermions. Sicily's famous scientists also include...

This is a list of scientific equations named after people (eponymous equations). Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Y Z See also References...

Klein–Gordon equation (Klein–Fock–Gordon equation or sometimes Klein–Gordon–Fock equation) is a relativistic wave equation, related to the Schrödinger equation. It...

neutrino satisfies the Majorana equation, which at first seems possible due to its zero electric charge. In this case a new Majorana mass term is added to...

spacetime. The corresponding equation is a relativistic wave equation called the Proca equation. The Proca action and equation are named after Romanian physicist...

that the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana found in 1928 a semi-analytical series solution to the Thomas–Fermi equation for the neutral atom, which however...

Probabilities from Noncompact Dynamical Groups 1967 Current Operators and Majorana Equation for the Hydrogen Atom from Dynamical Groups 1967 Dynamical Group O(4...

Sometimes these quasiparticles are also called Majorana modes, in analogy with the equations for Majorana fermions. Ronen, Yuval; Cohen, Yonatan; Kang,...

physicist Antonino Lo Surdo (1880–1949), physicist Ettore Majorana (1906–1997), physicist Quirino Majorana (1871–1957), physicist Antonino Zichichi (born 1929)...

handy later, the field φin is a solution of the homogeneous equation associated with the equation of motion: ( ∂ 2 + m 2 ) φ i n ( x ) = 0 , {\displaystyle...

manifest Lorentz covariance (time and space components of quantities enter equations in the same way) is easier to achieve than in the operator formalism of...

inhomogeneous Lorentz group, or the Poincaré group. Wigner notes Ettore Majorana and Dirac used infinitesimal operators applied to functions. Wigner classifies...

Diraclike Equation for the Photon, According to Ettore Majorana. Lettere al Nuovo Cimento, 11, 568–572. Moses, E. (1959).Solutions of Maxwell's equations in...

modeled with the Dirac equation. A Dirac fermion is equivalent to two Weyl fermions. The counterpart to a Dirac fermion is a Majorana fermion, a particle...

{\displaystyle \gamma _{5}^{\textsf {T}}=-\gamma _{5}} is obtained in the Majorana basis. A worked example follows. For the case of massless Dirac spinor...

In physics, the Callan–Symanzik equation is a differential equation describing the evolution of the n-point correlation functions under variation of the...

Ptolemy's Geographiae (1596) Ettore Majorana (1906–1938), theoretical physicist. He is noted for the eponymous Majorana equation Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694)...

infection in living cells Ettore Majorana (1906–1938), theoretical physicist, noted for the eponymous Majorana equation Bruno Pontecorvo (1913–1993), nuclear...