Arbitrary spin Galilean oscillator

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2015.01.012zbMATH Open1342.81108arXiv1409.5101OpenAlexW2963131172MaRDI QIDQ736469FDOQ736469

Publication date: 4 August 2016

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The so-called Dirac oscillator was proposed as a modification of the free Dirac equation which reproduces many of the properties of the simple harmonic oscillator but accompanied by a strong spin-orbit coupling term. It has yet to be extended successfully to the arbitrary spin S case primarily because of the unwieldiness of general spin Lorentz invariant wave equations. It is shown here using the formalism of totally symmetric multispinors that the Dirac oscillator can, however, be made to accommodate spin by incorporating it into the framework of Galilean relativity. This is done explicitly for spin zero and spin one as special cases of the arbitrary spin result. For the general case it is shown that the coefficient of the spin-orbit term has a 1/S behavior by techniques which are virtually identical to those employed in the derivation of the g-factor carried out over four decades ago.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5101

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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