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Dirac field

Dirac field noun: a fermionic field which consists of a 4-component spinor or a pair of 2-component Weyl spinors.

Noun

Dirac field

  1. (quantum mechanics) A fermionic field which consists of a 4-component spinor or a pair of 2-component Weyl spinors.

Origin of Dirac field

Named after English physicist Paul Dirac.

Questions about Dirac field

What does Dirac field mean?
Dirac field means a fermionic field which consists of a 4-component spinor or a pair of 2-component Weyl spinors.
What part of speech is Dirac field?
Dirac field is a noun.

Words near Dirac field in the dictionary

  1. Dirac deltas
  2. Dirac equation
  3. Dirac equations
  4. Dirac fermion
  5. Dirac fermions
  6. Dirac field
  7. Dirac notation
  8. Dirac particle
  9. Dirac picture
  10. Dirac pictures
  11. Dirac point

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