Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (/dɪˈræk/; 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English mathematical and theoretical physicist who is considered to be one...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Computing (DiRAC) is an integrated supercomputing facility used for research in particle physics, astronomy and cosmology in the United Kingdom. DiRAC makes...
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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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Gamma matrices (redirect from Dirac matrices)
\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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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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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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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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In mathematics and quantum mechanics, a Dirac operator is a differential operator that is a formal square root, or half-iterate, of a second-order operator...
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Planck constant (redirect from Diracs constant)
,: 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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The dirac (see Baati for the house dress) is a Somali garment worn by Somali women that is long, usually ankle length. Bacwayne/half bac/bacyare dirac, simply...
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Magnetic monopole (redirect from Dirac monopole)
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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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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In quantum field theory, the Dirac spinor is the spinor that describes all known fundamental particles that are fermions, with the possible exception...
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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 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 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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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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Bra–ket notation (redirect from Dirac notation)
Bra–ket notation, also called Dirac notation, is a notation for linear algebra and linear operators on complex vector spaces together with their dual...
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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 Paul Dirac Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually by the Institute of Physics (Britain's and Ireland's main professional body for physicists)...
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