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Dirac fermion






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Inphysics, a Dirac fermion is a spin-½ particle (afermion) which is different from its antiparticle. A vast majority of fermions fall under this category.

Description[edit]

Inparticle physics, all fermions in the standard model have distinct antiparticles (perhaps excepting neutrinos) and hence are Dirac fermions. They are named after Paul Dirac, and can be modeled with the Dirac equation.

A Dirac fermion is equivalent to two Weyl fermions.[1] The counterpart to a Dirac fermion is a Majorana fermion, a particle that must be its own antiparticle.

Dirac quasi-particles[edit]

Incondensed matter physics, low-energy excitations in graphene and topological insulators, among others, are fermionic quasiparticles described by a pseudo-relativistic Dirac equation.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Shifman, M.A. (1999). ITEP Lectures on Particle Physics and Field Theory. Vol. 1. World Scientific. p. 292. ISBN 9789810239480.


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