A semiclassical description of relativistic spin without the use of Grassmann variables and the Dirac equation

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2011.11.019zbMATH Open1237.81078OpenAlexW3100880780MaRDI QIDQ765784FDOQ765784

Authors A. A. Deriglazov 

Publication date 22 March 2012

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.0273

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac equationZitterbewegunglocal (gauge) symmetriesrelativistic spin theories with constraints

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

Abstract: We propose a relativistic particle model without Grassmann variables which, being canonically quantized, leads to the Dirac equation. Both $Gamma$,-matrices and the relativistic spin tensor are produced through the canonical quantization of the classical variables which parametrize the properly constructed relativistic spin surface. Although there is no mass-shell constraint in our model, our particle's speed cannot exceed the speed of light. The classical dynamics of the model is in correspondence with the dynamics of mean values of the corresponding operators in the Dirac theory. In particular, the position variable experiences {it Zitterbewegung} in noninteracting theory. The classical equations for the spin tensor are the same as those of the Barut-Zanghi model of a spinning particle.

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