Hamilton operator and the semiclassical limit for scalar particles in an electromagnetic field

DOI10.1007/S11232-008-0108-6zbMATH Open1155.81327arXiv0810.1604OpenAlexW2135557152MaRDI QIDQ1002635FDOQ1002635

A. Ya. Silenko

Publication date: 2 March 2009

Published in: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We successively apply the generalized Case-Foldy-Feshbach-Villars (CFFV) and the Foldy-Wouthuysen (FW) transformation to derive the Hamiltonian for relativistic scalar particles in an electromagnetic field. In contrast to the original transformation, the generalized CFFV transformation contains an arbitrary parameter and can be performed for massless particles, which allows solving the problem of massless particles in an electromagnetic field. We show that the form of the Hamiltonian in the FW representation is independent of the arbitrarily chosen parameter. Compared with the classical Hamiltonian for point particles, this Hamiltonian contains quantum terms characterizing the quadrupole coupling of moving particles to the electric field and the electric and mixed polarizabilities. We obtain the quantum mechanical and semiclassical equations of motion of massive and massless particles in an electromagnetic field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.1604

zbMATH Keywords

Klein-Gordon equationFoldy-Wouthuysen transformationelectromagnetic interactionscalar particleCase-Foldy-Feshbach-Villars transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

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