• In physics, and specifically in quantum field theory, a bispinor is a mathematical construction that is used to describe some of the fundamental particles...
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  • particles such as photons, and as a spinor or bispinor for other particles such as electrons. Spinors and bispinors behave similarly to vectors: they have definite...
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  • space of bispinors, Ux , is also assumed at every point in spacetime, endowed with the bispinor representation of the Lorentz group. The bispinor fields...
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  • equation, and is a certain combination of two Weyl spinors, specifically, a bispinor that transforms "spinorially" under the action of the Lorentz group. Dirac...
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    numbers. (⁠1/2⁠, 0) ⊕ (0, ⁠1/2⁠) is the bispinor representation. See also Dirac spinor and Weyl spinors and bispinors below. (1, ⁠1/2⁠) ⊕ (⁠1/2⁠, 1) is the...
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  • functions in the Dirac theory are vectors of four complex numbers (known as bispinors), two of which resemble the Pauli wavefunction in the non-relativistic...
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    {\displaystyle (i\gamma ^{\mu }\partial _{\mu }-m)\psi =0,} transforms as a bispinor, that is, under the (1/2, 0) ⊕ (0, 1/2) representation of the O(1, 3) group...
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    Lorentz group, including the bispinor representation. In (T2) one simply replaces all occurrences of Λ by the bispinor representation Π(Λ), u ⊗ v → Π...
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    {\displaystyle \gamma ^{\mu }} are Dirac matrices. ψ {\displaystyle \psi } a bispinor field of spin-1/2 particles (e.g. electron–positron field). ψ ¯ ≡ ψ † γ...
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  • ( x , t ) {\displaystyle \psi (\mathbf {x} ,t)} is the wave function (bispinor) of a fermionic particle spin-1/2, and H is the Dirac Hamiltonian of a...
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  • Schrödinger equation, one must find four complex functions that make up a bispinor. The first and second functions (or components of the spinor) correspond...
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    3-vector, the space on which the fundamental representation of SU(3) acts), a bispinor (Dirac 4-spinor), an nf vector, and a Grassmann variable. Thus, the composition...
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    four-component object in special relativity that is not a four-vector, see bispinor. It is similarly defined, the difference being that the transformation...
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  • with period 8. (cf. the Clifford algebra clock.) Weyl–Brauer matrices Bispinor Clifford module It is possible and even likely that many or most of the...
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  • {\displaystyle \psi _{1},\psi _{2}} are two-component spinor, forming a bispinor. Using the following ansatz: ( ψ 1 ψ 2 ) = e − i m c 2 t ℏ ( ψ χ ) , {\displaystyle...
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    neutrinos, and 2·3·3 = 18 for quarks). Each of these is a four component bispinor, for a total of 96 complex-valued components for the fermion field. An...
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    Extensions of the Algebra of the Generators of the Poincaré Group by the Bispinor Generators», in I. E. Tamm Memorial Volume Problems of Theoretical Physics...
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  • a spinor with 4N elements, since each electron is described by a Dirac bispinor with 4 elements as in the Dirac equation, and the total wave function is...
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  • etc., of the Minkowski space (and also more complicated objects like bispinors and others). An example of a covariant equation is the Lorentz force equation...
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  • prediction of a particle and corresponding antiparticle. See Dirac spinor and bispinor for further description of these spinors. In the non-relativistic limit...
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    blocks of zero matrices. The above matrix operator contracts with one bispinor index of ψ at a time (see matrix multiplication), so some properties of...
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  • particle/anti-particle states (equivalently, the chiral states in the Weyl basis). The bispinor, insofar as it has linearly independent left and right components, can...
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  • lower spinor | ψ L ⟩ {\textstyle |\psi _{L}\rangle } of the matrix Dirac bispinor | ψ ⟩ {\textstyle |\psi \rangle } to the corresponding geometric algebra...
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  • relativistic dispersion relation and obtained Dirac equation, described by a bispinor. This equation can be decoupled into two spinors in the non-relativistic...
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  • {\displaystyle (r,\theta ,\phi )} , Chandrasekhar showed that the four bispinor components of the wave function, [ F 1 ( r , θ ) F 2 ( r , θ ) G 1 ( r...
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  • space in SO+(1, 1), but this solution generalizes to any massive Dirac bispinor in SO+(1, 3). The configuration space consists of functionals Ψ [ u ] {\displaystyle...
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  • Oscillations Network Bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide Bispectral analysis Bispinor Bistatic Doppler shift Bistatic range Bivector Bjarne Tromborg Bjerrum...
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