• matrices,   { γ 0 , γ 1 , γ 2 , γ 3 }   , {\displaystyle \ \left\{\gamma ^{0},\gamma ^{1},\gamma ^{2},\gamma ^{3}\right\}\ ,} also called the Dirac matrices...
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  • contains gamma matrices and a parameter m > 0 {\displaystyle m>0} interpreted as the mass, as well as other physical constants. Dirac first obtained his...
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    three dimensions Gamma matrices § Dirac basis Angular momentum Gell-Mann matrices Poincaré group Generalizations of Pauli matrices Bloch sphere Euler's...
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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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  • physicist P. A. M. Dirac in 1928 in developing the Dirac equation for spin-1/2 particles with a matrix representation of the gamma matrices, which represent...
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  • {\alpha }}=(\alpha _{1},\alpha _{2},\alpha _{3})} are the off-diagonal Dirac matrices α i = β γ i {\displaystyle \alpha _{i}=\beta \gamma _{i}} , with β =...
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    trivialization. Just as with the Dirac equation on flat spacetime, we make use of the Clifford algebra, a set of four gamma matrices {γμ}{\displaystyle \{\gamma...
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  • physics, higher-dimensional gamma matrices generalize to arbitrary dimension the four-dimensional Gamma matrices of Dirac, which are a mainstay of relativistic...
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    Schrödinger equation (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    which the γ = (γ1, γ2, γ3) and γ0 are the Dirac gamma matrices related to the spin of the particle. The Dirac equation is true for all spin-1⁄2 particles...
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  • is the study of Dirac operators, and Dirac type operators in analysis and geometry, together with their applications. Examples of Dirac type operators...
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  • packaged into a matrix Z a b {\displaystyle Z_{ab}} defined using the Dirac matrices Z a b = ∑ H ( − 1 ) h ( h − 1 ) / 2 ( γ H ) a b T d x H . {\displaystyle...
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    relativistic quantum mechanics. Likewise using the 4 × 4 Dirac gamma matrices gives rise to the 4 component Dirac spinors used in 3+1 dimensional relativistic quantum...
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  • \gamma ^{\mu }} are the gamma matrices (known as Dirac matrices) and i is the imaginary unit. A second application of the Dirac operator will now reproduce...
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  • acts. Augustin-Louis Cauchy proved the spectral theorem for symmetric matrices, i.e., that every real, symmetric matrix is diagonalizable. In addition...
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    Wolfgang Pauli (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    influenced Paul Dirac in his creation of the Dirac equation for the relativistic electron, though Dirac said that he invented these same matrices himself independently...
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    }=-i{\frac {\partial }{\partial x_{\mu }}}} and γμ are the gamma matrices. The two-body Dirac equations (TBDE) have the property that if one of the masses...
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    matrix multiplication of the two matrices. When two matrices are multiplied, the answer is a third matrix. Paul Dirac decided that the essence of Heisenberg's...
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    quantum mechanics uses 4×4 matrices to describe spin operators and observables.[citation needed] When physicist Paul Dirac tried to modify the Schrödinger...
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  • particles as matrices that evolve in time. It is equivalent to the Schrödinger wave formulation of quantum mechanics, as manifest in Dirac's bra–ket notation...
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    equation in terms of the Pauli matrices; the Weyl equation, for massless spin-1/2 fermions. The problem was resolved by Dirac in the late 1920s, when he furthered...
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  • matrices multiplying ψ suggest it isn't a scalar wavefunction as permitted in the KG equation, but must instead be a four-component entity. The Dirac...
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  • or wavefunctions: while those can only represent pure states, density matrices can also represent mixed states. Mixed states arise in quantum mechanics...
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  • }} are the Dirac matrices, and e μ i {\displaystyle e_{\mu }^{i}} is a tetrad. If the wave function propagates according to the curved Dirac equation,...
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    Ettore Majorana in 1937. The term is sometimes used in opposition to a Dirac fermion, which describes fermions that are not their own antiparticles....
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    of the γμ matrices, and the mc term scalar-multiplies the 4 × 4 identity matrix (usually not written for simplicity). Explicitly, in the Dirac representation...
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  • Spin (physics) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Nevertheless, spin appears in the Dirac equation, and thus the relativistic Hamiltonian of the electron, treated as a Dirac field, can be interpreted as including...
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  • Zitterbewegung (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Schrödinger in 1930 as a result of analysis of the wave packet solutions of the Dirac equation for relativistic electrons in free space, in which an interference...
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    {m^{2}}{\kappa }}. Dirac equation Dirac equation in the algebra of physical space Dirac–Kähler equation Gross–Neveu model Higher-dimensional gamma matrices Nonlinear...
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    replaces the velocity of light in the Dirac theory; σ → {\displaystyle {\vec {\sigma }}} is the vector of the Pauli matrices; ψ ( r ) {\displaystyle \psi (\mathbf...
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  • Symplectic matrix (category Matrices)
    This definition can be extended to 2 n × 2 n {\displaystyle 2n\times 2n} matrices with entries in other fields, such as the complex numbers, finite fields...
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