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

DOI10.1142/S0217751X09045297MaRDI QIDQ3397930zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bruno Gonçalves

Publication date 25 September 2009

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac particleelectromagnetic fieldFoldy--Wouthuysen transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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