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How to interpret solution to Dirac equation for Hydrogen atom?
what physically do these non-zero entries mean?
The solutions to the Dirac equation in the quoted Wikipedia article
are meant to be in the Dirac basis (also called standard representation),
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How to dimensionally reduce the 3+1D Dirac equation into the 1+1D Dirac equation?
The method suggested by @Qmechanic. It can be done in three lines.
The 4-component Dirac equation can be re-written as
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i\partial_t \psi = \left [ \gamma^0 \gamma^{a} (-i\nabla_a) + \gamma^0 m \...
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Spinor components in Dirac Equation are 'coupling'?
I'm not sure what physical intuition you are after about the coupled components of Dirac spinors, which describe a particle and an antiparticle of both spin directions each. The Dirac Equation with ...
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Why are Weyl's Equations composed of only first-order derivatives?
Equations 2nd-order in time (like the Klein-Gordon Equation) yield negative energy solutions which are not consistent if interpreted as wave functions of physical particles (as Schroedinger and Dirac ...
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