Localized degenerate solutions to the massless Dirac and Weyl equations
Georgios N. Tsigaridas, Aristides I. Kechriniotis, Christos A. Tsonos, Konstantinos K. Delibasis
Published: 2025/9/17
Abstract
In this article we present a general class of degenerate solutions to the massless Dirac and Weyl equations, which can describe localized particles and/or particles with variable energy, that could be interpreted as virtual particles appearing either in the vacuum or in materials supporting massless Dirac or Weyl particles. These solutions exist in a wide range of electromagnetic 4-potentials and fields, which are explicitly calculated. In addition, we describe a method for controlling the transverse spatial distribution of Weyl particles and separating them according to their helicity and direction of motion using suitable magnetic fields.