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    Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (/dɪˈræk/ dih-RAK; 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English mathematical and theoretical physicist who is considered...
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  • In particle physics, the Dirac equation is a relativistic wave equation derived by British physicist Paul Dirac in 1928. In its free form, or including...
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    In mathematical analysis, the Dirac delta function (or δ distribution), also known as the unit impulse, is a generalized function on the real numbers...
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  • Look up Dirac in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Paul Dirac (1902–1984) was a Swiss-British theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate, and a founder of the...
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  • ,: 112  the Dirac constant: 275  : 726  : xv  (or Dirac's constant: 148  : 604  : 313 ), the Dirac h {\textstyle h} : xviii  (or Dirac's h {\textstyle...
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    Fermi–Dirac statistics is a type of quantum statistics that applies to the physics of a system consisting of many non-interacting, identical particles...
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  • Fermi–Dirac may refer to: Fermi–Dirac statistics or Fermi–Dirac distribution Fermi–Dirac integral (disambiguation) Complete Fermi–Dirac integral Incomplete...
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  • pseudo-relativistic Dirac equation. Dirac spinor, a wavefunction-like description of a Dirac fermion Dirac–Kähler fermion, a geometric formulation of Dirac fermions...
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  • The Dirac Medal or Dirac prize can refer to different awards named in honour of the physics Nobel Laureate Paul Dirac. Dirac Medal (ICTP), awarded by the...
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  • In mathematics, a Dirac spectrum, named after Paul Dirac, is the spectrum of eigenvalues of a Dirac operator on a Riemannian manifold with a spin structure...
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    Durrës (redirect from Diraç)
    known in Ottoman Turkish as Dırac (دراج); with final consonant devoicing, the name has evolved into modern Turkish as Dıraç. In Venetian it is called Durazo...
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  • The Dirac Medal of the ICTP is given each year by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in honour of physicist Paul Dirac. The award...
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    In mathematics, a Dirac comb (also known as sha function, impulse train or sampling function) is a periodic function with the formula Ш   T ⁡ ( t )  ...
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  • Dirac's theorem may refer to: Dirac's theorem on Hamiltonian cycles, the statement that an n-vertex graph in which each vertex has degree at least n/2...
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  • \left\{\gamma ^{0},\gamma ^{1},\gamma ^{2},\gamma ^{3}\right\}\ ,} also called the Dirac matrices, are a set of conventional matrices with specific anticommutation...
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    In mathematics, a Dirac measure assigns a size to a set based solely on whether it contains a fixed element x or not. It is one way of formalizing the...
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  • In mathematics and in quantum mechanics, a Dirac operator is a first-order differential operator that is a formal square root, or half-iterate, of a second-order...
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  • In condensed matter physics, semi-Dirac fermions are a class of quasiparticles that are fermionic with the unusual property that their energy dispersion...
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  • physics, a Dirac string is a one-dimensional curve in space, conceived of by the physicist Paul Dirac, stretching between two hypothetical Dirac monopoles...
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  • unviable. This was fixed by Dirac by taking the so-called square root of the Klein–Gordon operator and in turn introducing Dirac matrices. In a modern context...
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    In physics, Dirac cones are features that occur in some electronic band structures that describe unusual electron transport properties of materials like...
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    magnetic charge started with a paper by the physicist Paul Dirac in 1931. In this paper, Dirac showed that if any magnetic monopoles exist in the universe...
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  • In mathematics a Dirac structure is a geometric structure generalizing both symplectic structures and Poisson structures, and having several applications...
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  • In quantum field theory, the Dirac adjoint defines the dual operation of a Dirac spinor. The Dirac adjoint is motivated by the need to form well-behaved...
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  • In mathematics, the complete Fermi–Dirac integral, named after Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac, for an index j  is defined by F j ( x ) = 1 Γ ( j + 1 ) ∫...
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  • Dirac (and Dirac Pro, a subset standardised as SMPTE VC-2) is an open and royalty-free video compression format, specification and software video codec...
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  • theory, a Fermi–Dirac prime is a prime power whose exponent is a power of two. These numbers are named from an analogy to Fermi–Dirac statistics in physics...
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  • The Dirac bracket is a generalization of the Poisson bracket developed by Paul Dirac to treat classical systems with second class constraints in Hamiltonian...
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  • term Dirac matter refers to a class of condensed matter systems which can be effectively described by the Dirac equation. Even though the Dirac equation...
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    The Dirac sea is a theoretical model of the electron vacuum as an infinite sea of electrons with negative energy, now called positrons. It was first postulated...
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