On the relativistic L - S coupling

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/19/6/008MaRDI QIDQ4433659zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 3 December 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9809015

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Dirac equationnon-relativistic limitsolutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

Abstract: The fact that the Dirac equation is linear in the space and time derivatives leads to the coupling of spin and orbital angular momenta that is of a pure relativistic nature. We illustrate this fact by computing the solutions of the Dirac equation in an infinite spherical well, which allows to go from the relativistic to the non-relativistic limit by just varying the radius of the well.

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