The Zeeman effect for the relativistic bound state

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/28/11/025MaRDI QIDQ4845666zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. C. Land, L. Horwitz

Publication date 17 September 1995

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9407075

zbMATH Keywords

Zeeman effectLorentz invariancerotation groupZeeman splittingcovariant formSchrödinger equation

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) Special relativity (83A05) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)

Abstract: In the context of a relativistic quantum mechanics with invariant evolution parameter, solutions for the relativistic bound state problem have been found, which yield a spectrum for the total mass coinciding with the nonrelativistic Schr"odinger energy spectrum. These spectra were obtained by choosing an arbitrary spacelike unit vector $n_{m}u$ and restricting the support of the eigenfunctions in spacetime to the subspace of the Minkowski measure space, for which $(x_{p}erp{)}^2=[x-(xcdotn)n{]}^{2}geq0$. In this paper, we examine the Zeeman effect for these bound states, which requires $n_{m}u$ to be a dynamical quantity. We recover the usual Zeeman splitting in a manifestly covariant form.

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