Semiclassical quantisation rules for the Dirac and Pauli equations.

DOI10.1016/S0003-4916(03)00007-1zbMATH Open1037.81029arXivquant-ph/0212082OpenAlexW2045356220MaRDI QIDQ1869833FDOQ1869833

Authors: Stefan Keppeler 

Publication date: 28 April 2003

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

Abstract: We derive explicit semiclassical quantisation conditions for the Dirac and Pauli equations. We show that the spin degree of freedom yields a contribution which is of the same order of magnitude as the Maslov correction in Einstein-Brillouin-Keller quantisation. In order to obtain this result a generalisation of the notion of integrability for a certain skew product flow of classical translational dynamics and classical spin precession has to be derived. Among the examples discussed is the relativistic Kepler problem with Thomas precession, whose treatment sheds some light on the amazing success of Sommerfeld's theory of fine structure [Ann. Phys. (Leipzig) 51 (1916) 1--91].

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0212082

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zbMATH Keywords

Thomas precessionclassical spin precessionMaslov correction in Einstein-Brillouin-Keller quantisationrelativistic Kepler problemskew product flow of classical translational dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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