• 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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  • physics, the Dirac–Kähler equation, also known as the Ivanenko–Landau–Kähler equation, is the geometric analogue of the Dirac equation that can be defined...
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    coining the latter term. Among other discoveries, he formulated the Dirac equation in 1928, which describes the behaviour of fermions and predicted the...
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  • turn introducing Dirac matrices. In a modern context, the Klein-Gordon equation describes spin-less particles, while the Dirac equation describes spin-1/2...
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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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    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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    notation. In quantum field theory, the nonlinear Dirac equation is a model of self-interacting Dirac fermions. This model is widely considered in quantum...
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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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    two-body Dirac equations (TBDE) of constraint dynamics provide a three-dimensional yet manifestly covariant reformulation of the Bethe–Salpeter equation for...
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  • to the Dirac equation for relativistic spin   1   2 {\displaystyle {\tfrac {\ 1\ }{2}}} particles. Gamma matrices were introduced by Paul Dirac in 1928...
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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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    charge qm of the source. Dirac was originally considering an electron whose wave function is described by the Dirac equation. Because the electron returns...
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  • relativistic version is called the Lorentz–Dirac force or collectively known as Abraham–Lorentz–Dirac force. The equations are in the domain of classical physics...
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  • interaction picture (also known as the interaction representation or Dirac picture after Paul Dirac, who introduced it) is an intermediate representation between...
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  • Théophile de Donder and Frans-H. van den Dungen, and Louis de Broglie. Although it turned out that modeling the electron's spin required the Dirac equation, the...
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    comfortable with the "Dirac sea" of negative energy states). The natural problem became clear: to generalize the Dirac equation to particles with any...
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  • the continuum of negative energy states, that are solutions to the Dirac equation, are filled with electrons, and the vacancies in this continuum (holes)...
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    The Dirac large numbers hypothesis (LNH) is an observation made by Paul Dirac in 1937 relating ratios of size scales in the Universe to that of force...
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    Wheeler–DeWitt equation for theoretical physics and applied mathematics, is a field equation attributed to John Archibald Wheeler and Bryce DeWitt. The...
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  • was introduced by the mathematical physicist P. A. M. Dirac in 1928 in developing the Dirac equation for spin-⁠1/2⁠ particles with a matrix representation...
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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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    particularly for his solution of the mean field theory of spin glasses." Dirac Medal of the ICTP, 1999. "Giorgio Parisi is distinguished for his original...
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  • external electromagnetic field. It is the non-relativistic limit of the Dirac equation and can be used where particles are moving at speeds much less than...
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    Mathematically, any Dirac fermion can be decomposed as two Weyl fermions of opposite chirality coupled by the mass term. The Dirac equation was published in...
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  • une certaine relation entre leurs branches, exprimée par une Équation donnée.", Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences: 196–215. Kamke, E. (1944),...
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    Wave function (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    satisfy the same equation as do the fields (wave functions) in many cases. Thus the Klein–Gordon equation (spin 0) and the Dirac equation (spin 1⁄2) in this...
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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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  • {\displaystyle |1\rangle } denote particular solutions to the Schrödinger equation in Dirac notation weighted by the two probability amplitudes c 0 {\displaystyle...
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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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    where δ {\displaystyle \delta } is the Dirac delta function. With a simple division, the Schrödinger equation for a single particle of mass m in the absence...
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