Electromagnetic field theory without divergence problems. II: A least invasively quantized theory

DOI10.1023/B:JOSS.0000037251.24558.5CMaRDI QIDQ2385677zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael K.-H. Kiessling

Publication date 12 October 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0311034

zbMATH Keywords

Born's statistical lawde Broglie-Bohm law of quantum motionelectromagnetic fieldsKlein-Gordon equationMaxwell-Born-Infeld field equationspoint chargesspace-like foliationswave functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Motion of charged particles (78A35) History of quantum theory (81-03) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

Abstract: The classical Maxwell--Born--Infeld field equations coupled with a Hamilton--Jacobi law of point charge motion are partially quantized by coupling the Hamilton-Jacobi phase function with an amplitude function, which combines with the phase function into a single complex wave function satisfying a relativistic Klein--Gordon equation self-consistently coupled to the evolution equations for the electromagnetic fields with generic point source (explicitly worked out for one particle; options for many particles briefly discussed). Radiation-free stationary states exist. The hydrogen spectrum with infinitely massive nucleus is discussed in some detail and upper estimates for Born's `aether constant' obtained. In the nonrelativistic limit the model reduces to the de-Broglie--Bohm formulation of quantum mechanics.

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