Uniqueness of conserved currents in quantum mechanics

DOI10.1002/ANDP.200310022zbMATH Open1037.81028arXivquant-ph/0305175OpenAlexW1999663342MaRDI QIDQ4452487FDOQ4452487

Peter Holland

Publication date: 12 February 2004

Published in: Annalen der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is proved by a functional method that the conventional expression for the Dirac current is the only conserved 4-vector implied by the Dirac equation that is a function of just the quantum state. The demonstration is extended to derive the unique conserved currents implied by the coupled Maxwell-Dirac equations and the Klein-Gordon equation. The uniqueness of the usual Pauli and Schrodinger currents follows by regarding these as the non-relativistic limits of the Dirac and Klein-Gordon currents, respectively. The existence and properties of further conserved vectors that are not functions of just the state is examined.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0305175

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zbMATH Keywords

Dirac equationKlein-Gordon equationconserved quantum current

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

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