A semiclassical approach to the Dirac equation

DOI10.1006/aphy.1999.5912zbMath0940.35173arXivquant-ph/9811025OpenAlexW2131428411MaRDI QIDQ1300614

Jens Bolte, Stefan Keppeler

Publication date: 10 May 2000

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9811025

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac equationtrace formulaPauli equationclassical trajectoriesdynamics of relativistic point particlessemiclassical time evolution kernel

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20)

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