The Dirac oscillator. A relativistic version of the Jaynes-Cummings model

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DOI10.1088/0305-4470/32/28/314zbMATH Open0946.81021arXivquant-ph/9903073OpenAlexW3103527817MaRDI QIDQ4947682FDOQ4947682


Authors: Piotr Rozmej, Robert Arvieu Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 25 April 2000

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

Abstract: The dynamics of wave packets in a relativistic Dirac oscillator is compared to that of the Jaynes-Cummings model. The strong spin-orbit coupling of the Dirac oscillator produces the entanglement of the spin with the orbital motion similar to what is observed in the model of quantum optics. The collapses and revivals of the spin which result extend to a relativistic theory our previous findings on nonrelativistic oscillator where they were known under the name of `spin-orbit pendulum'. There are important relativistic effects (lack of periodicity, zitterbewegung, negative energy states). Many of them disappear after a Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9903073




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