Semiclassical quantisation rules for the Dirac and Pauli equations.

DOI10.1016/S0003-4916(03)00007-1MaRDI QIDQ1869833zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefan Keppeler

Publication date 28 April 2003

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

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

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)

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].

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