Eliminating unphysical photon components from Dirac-Maxwell Hamiltonian quantized in the Lorenz gauge

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2016.09.006MaRDI QIDQ321862zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shinichiro Futakuchi, Kouta Usui

Publication date 14 October 2016

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00462

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac-Maxwell HamiltonianGupta-Bleuler formalismindefinite metric spaceLorenz gauge quantizationquantum field theoryself-adjoint operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spaces with indefinite inner product (Kre?n spaces, Pontryagin spaces, etc.) (46C20) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: We study the Dirac-Maxwell model quantized in the Lorenz gauge. In this gauge, the space of quantum mechanical state vectors inevitably be an indefinite metric vector space so that the canonical commutation relation (CCR) is realized in a Lorentz covariant manner. In order to obtain a physical subspace in which no negative norm state exists, the method first proposed by Gupta and Bleuler is applied with mathematical rigor. It is proved that a suitably defined physical subspace has a positive semi-definit metric, and naturally induces a physical Hilbert space with a positive definite metric. The original Dirac-Maxwell Hamiltonian naturally defines an induced Hamiltonian on the physical Hilbert space which is essentially self-adjoint.

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