Dirac (disambiguation)
 |
Look up Dirac in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Paul Dirac (1902–1984) was a Swiss-British theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate, and a founder of the field of quantum physics.
Dirac may also refer to:
Physics
- Dirac bracket, a generalization of the Poisson bracket
- Dirac constant, a reduced form of the Planck constant
- Dirac equation, a relativistic quantum mechanical wave equation
- Dirac notation, a standard notation for describing quantum states
Other uses
- 5997 Dirac, a main-belt asteroid
- Dirac (software), a relativistic quantum chemistry program
- Dirac (video compression format), an open digital video codec developed by BBC Research
- Dirac, Charente, a commune of the Charente département, in France
- Dirac measure, a mathematical measure that is a probability measure
- Dirac observables, see loop quantum gravity
See also
- Dirac delta function, a generalized mathematical function
- Gabriel Andrew Dirac (1925–1984), graph theorist, Paul Dirac's stepson
- Dirak, former name of the town Karnut, Armenia
- Fermi–Dirac (disambiguation)
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/4/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.