SOME ASPECTS OF THE EXACT FOLDY-WOUTHUYSEN TRANSFORMATION FOR A DIRAC FERMION

DOI10.1142/S0217751X09045297zbMATH Open1170.81359arXiv0907.1246OpenAlexW3101728616MaRDI QIDQ3397930FDOQ3397930

Authors: Bruno Gonçalves 

Publication date: 25 September 2009

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation (FWT) is used to separate distinct components of relativistic spinor field, e.g. electron and positron. Usually, the FWT is perturbative, but in some cases there is an involution operator and the transformation can be done exactly. We consider some aspects of an exact FWT and show that, even if the theory does not admit an involution operator, one can use the technique of exact FWT to obtain the conventional perturbative result. Several particular cases can be elaborated as examples.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.1246

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zbMATH Keywords

electromagnetic fieldDirac particleFoldy--Wouthuysen transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

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