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Categories: Paul Dirac, Vacuum, Quantum field theory, Articles with short description
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Dirac sea  Dirac's Ocean  Dirac Ocean  Dirac vacuum  hole theory
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The Dirac sea is a theoretical model of the electron vacuum as an infinite sea of electrons with negative energy, now called positrons. Wikipedia
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The Dirac sea is a theoretical model of the electron vacuum as an infinite sea of electrons with negative energy, now called positrons. Wikipedia
Ground state of a fermionic field; thought of as a "sea" of negative-energy states that have been all filled in, thus rendering the vaccum stable Wikidata
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Superseded theories in science
ground state
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electron hole
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Dirac's Ocean, Dirac Ocean, Dirac Sea, Dirac vacuum, hole theory, Sea of Dirac, Sea of states

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