• quantum mechanics, a Dirac operator is a differential operator that is a formal square root, or half-iterate, of a second-order operator such as a Laplacian...
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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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  • study of Dirac operators, and Dirac type operators in analysis and geometry, together with their applications. Examples of Dirac type operators include...
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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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    Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac OM FRS (/dɪˈræk/; 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English mathematical and theoretical physicist who is considered to...
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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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  • becomes +iħ  preceding the 3-momentum operator. This operator occurs in relativistic quantum field theory, such as the Dirac equation and other relativistic...
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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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  • mathematical physics, the Dirac–von Neumann axioms give a mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics in terms of operators on a Hilbert space. They...
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  • first order operator d + δ {\displaystyle \mathrm {d} +\delta } is the Hodge–Dirac operator. When computing the Laplace–de Rham operator on a scalar function...
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  • position operator should necessarily be Dirac delta distributions, suppose that ψ {\displaystyle \psi } is an eigenstate of the position operator with eigenvalue...
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  • 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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    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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  • that this integrality could be explained if it were the index of the Dirac operator (which was rediscovered by Atiyah and Singer in 1961). The Atiyah–Singer...
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    In mathematical physics, the Dirac equation in curved spacetime is a generalization of the Dirac equation from flat spacetime (Minkowski space) to curved...
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  • indicates those twistor spinors which are also eigenspinors of the Dirac operator. The term is named after Wilhelm Killing. Another equivalent definition...
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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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  • as second quantization. They were introduced by Paul Dirac. Creation and annihilation operators can act on states of various types of particles. For example...
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    Geometry of Dirac operators, p. 8, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.186.8445 Hörmander, L. (1983), The analysis of linear partial differential operators I, Grundl. Math...
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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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  • forms: As the Dirac equation written so that the Dirac operator is purely Hermitian, thus giving purely real solutions. As an operator that relates a...
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    a weakly elliptic first-order operator, such as the Dirac operator can square to become a strongly elliptic operator, such as the Laplacian. The composition...
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    TBDE requires a particular form of mathematical consistency: the two Dirac operators must commute with each other. This is plausible if one views the two...
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  • integral Dirac delta function Dirac comb Dirac measure Dirac operator Dirac algebra 5997 Dirac, an asteroid The various Dirac Medals Dirac (software) DiRAC supercomputing...
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  • of the determinant of a Dirac operator changes sign as one circumnavigates the circle. The eigenvalues of the Dirac operator come in pairs, and the sign...
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  • manifold using the Laplace–de Rham operator. In four-dimensional flat spacetime, it is equivalent to four copies of the Dirac equation that transform into each...
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  • found that on a spin manifold, the difference between the square of the Dirac operator and the tensor Laplacian (as defined on spinor fields) is given exactly...
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  • while the (absolute value of) Dirac operator retains the metric. On the other hand, the phase part of the Dirac operator, in conjunction with the algebra...
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  • all other fundamental interactions. Chirality for a Dirac fermion ψ is defined through the operator γ5, which has eigenvalues ±1; the eigenvalue's sign...
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  • )\otimes |0\rangle } Consider what happens when we discretize a massive Dirac operator over one spatial dimension. In the absence of a mass term, we have left-movers...
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