scholarly journals Fully Symmetric Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Its Physical Implications

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1213
Author(s):  
Bao D. Tran ◽  
Zdzislaw E. Musielak
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Relativistic Particle ◽  
Relativistic Quantum ◽  
Minkowski Spacetime ◽  
Special Theory ◽  
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Theory Of Relativity ◽  
Integral Formalism ◽  
Classical Action ◽  
New Formulation

A new formulation of relativistic quantum mechanics is presented and applied to a free, massive, and spin-zero elementary particle in the Minkowski spacetime. The reformulation requires that time and space, as well as the timelike and spacelike intervals, are treated equally, which makes the new theory fully symmetric and consistent with the special theory of relativity. The theory correctly reproduces the classical action of a relativistic particle in the path integral formalism, and allows for the introduction of a new quantity called vector-mass, whose physical implications for nonlocality, the uncertainty principle, and quantum vacuum are described and discussed.

scholarly journals Quantum backflow in solutions to the Dirac equation of the spin-1 2 free particle

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (32) ◽  
pp. 1850186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong-Yi Su ◽  
Jing-Ling Chen
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Dirac Equation ◽  
Relativistic Particle ◽  
Relativistic Quantum ◽  
Free Particle ◽  
Negative Energy ◽  
Dirac Particle ◽  
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Probability Current ◽  
Negative Probability

It was known that a free, non-relativistic particle in a superposition of positive momenta can, in certain cases, bear a negative probability current — hence termed quantum backflow. Here, it is shown that more variations can be brought about for a free Dirac particle, particularly when negative-energy solutions are taken into account. Since any Dirac particle can be understood as an antiparticle that acts oppositely (and vice versa), quantum backflow is found to arise in the superposition (i) of a well-defined momentum but different signs of energies, or more remarkably (ii) of different signs of both momenta and energies. Neither of these cases has a counterpart in non-relativistic quantum mechanics. A generalization by using the field-theoretic formalism is also presented and discussed.

scholarly journals QUANTIZATION OF POINTLIKE PARTICLES AND CONSISTENT RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MECHANICS

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (28) ◽  
pp. 4499-4538 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. GAVRILOV ◽  
D. M. GITMAN
Keyword(s):  
Hilbert Space ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Relativistic Particle ◽  
Relativistic Quantum ◽  
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Quantum Field ◽  
Positive Spectrum ◽  
The One ◽  
Relativistic Particles

We revise the problem of the quantization of relativistic particle models (spinless and spinning), presenting a modified consistent canonical scheme. One of the main point of the modification is related to a principally new realization of the Hilbert space. It allows one not only to include arbitrary backgrounds in the consideration but to get in the course of the quantization consistent relativistic quantum mechanics, which reproduces literally the behavior of the one-particle sector of the corresponding quantum field. In particular, in a physical sector of the Hilbert space, a complete positive spectrum of energies of relativistic particles and antiparticles is reproduced, and all state vectors have only positive norms.

Stochastic microcausality in relativistic quantum mechanics

1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 883-906 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. Greenwood ◽  
E. Prugovečki
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Relativistic Quantum ◽  
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics

Relativistic Multiple Scattering Theory

1991 ◽  
Vol 253 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. L. Gyorffy
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Relativistic Quantum ◽  
Schr6dinger Equation ◽  
Relativistic Effects ◽  
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Absolute Minimum ◽  
Crystalline Anisotropy ◽  
Symmetry Properties ◽  
Finite Set

The symmetry properties of the Dirac equation, which describes electrons in relativistic quantum mechanics, is rather different from that of the corresponding Schr6dinger equation. Consequently, even when the velocity of light, c, is much larger than the velocity of an electron Vk, with wave vector, k, relativistic effects may be important. For instance, while the exchange interaction is isotropic in non-relativistic quantum mechanics the coupling between spin and orbital degrees of freedom in relativistic quantum mechanics implies that the band structure of a spin polarized metal depends on the orientation of its magnetization with respect to the crystal axis. As a consequence there is a finite set of degenerate directions for which the total energy of the electrons is an absolute minimum. Evidently, the above effect is the principle mechanism of the magneto crystalline anisotropy [1]. The following session will focus on this and other qualitatively new relativistic effects, such as dichroism at x-ray frequencies [2] or Fano effects in photo-emission from non-polarized solids [3].

scholarly journals PROBABILITY IN RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MECHANICS AND FOLIATION OF SPACE–TIME

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (32) ◽  
pp. 6243-6251 ◽  
Author(s):  
HRVOJE NIKOLIĆ
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Wave Equations ◽  
Integral Curve ◽  
Relativistic Quantum ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Relativistic Wave ◽  
Probability Densities ◽  
The Many ◽  
Conserved Currents

The conserved probability densities (attributed to the conserved currents derived from relativistic wave equations) should be nonnegative and the integral of them over an entire hypersurface should be equal to one. To satisfy these requirements in a covariant manner, the foliation of space–time must be such that each integral curve of the current crosses each hypersurface of the foliation once and only once. In some cases, it is necessary to use hypersurfaces that are not spacelike everywhere. The generalization to the many-particle case is also possible.

Dirac's aether in relativistic quantum mechanics

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Cufaro Petroni ◽  
Jean Pierre Vigier
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Relativistic Quantum ◽  
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
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