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...

turn introducing Dirac matrices. In a modern context, the Klein-Gordon equation describes spin-less particles, while the Dirac equation describes spin-1/2...

coining the latter term. Among other discoveries, he formulated the Dirac equation in 1928, which describes the behaviour of fermions and predicted the...

physicist Paul Dirac in 1930 to explain the anomalous negative-energy quantum states predicted by the relativistically-correct Dirac equation for electrons...

to the Dirac equation for relativistic spin   1   2 {\displaystyle {\tfrac {\ 1\ }{2}}} particles. Gamma matrices were introduced by Paul Dirac in 1928...

particles. Its theoretical relevance is similar to that of the Dirac equation. The equation solutions include a scalar or pseudoscalar field[clarification...

In mathematical physics, the Dirac equation in curved spacetime is a generalization of the Dirac equation from flat spacetime (Minkowski space) to curved...

exception of neutrinos. It appears in the plane-wave solution to the Dirac equation, and is a certain combination of two Weyl spinors, specifically, a bispinor...

can approximate the force of the impact by a Dirac delta. In doing so, one not only simplifies the equations, but one also is able to calculate the motion...

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...