Quantum state of a free spin-12 particle and the inextricable dependence of spin and momentum under Lorentz transformations

DOI10.1142/S0219749912300033MaRDI QIDQ4906466zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tiago Debarba, Reinaldo Vianna

Publication date 11 February 2013

Published in International Journal of Quantum Information (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3147

zbMATH Keywords

entanglementquantum informationrelativistic quantum mechanicsLorentz transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of group representations to physics and other areas of science (20C35) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Special relativity (83A05)

Abstract: We revise the Dirac equation for a free particle and investigate Lorentz transformations on spinors. We study how the spin quantization axis changes under Lorentz transformations, and evince the interplay between spin and momentum in this context.

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