scholarly journals A Finite and Discrete Model for Single Fermion Mass Renormalization: Derivation of the Free Particle Dirac Equation

1995 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 434-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Pierre Noyes
1974 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 1671-1684 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sorg

The finite extension of the classical electron is defined in a new, covariant manner. This new definition enables one to calculate exactly the bound and emitted four-momentum and to find an equation of motion different from the Lorentz-Dirac equation and from other equations proposed in the literature. Neither mass renormalization nor use of advanced quantities nor asymptotic conditions are necessary. Runaway solutions and pre-acceleration do not occur in the framework of the model presented here.


2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (32) ◽  
pp. 1850186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong-Yi Su ◽  
Jing-Ling Chen

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.


2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (04) ◽  
pp. 291-304
Author(s):  
YONG ZHOU

We discuss the gauge dependence of fermion mass definition under the on-shell and pole mass renormalization prescriptions. By the two-loop-level calculation of the cross section of the physical process [Formula: see text], we prove for the first time that the on-shell fermion mass renormalization prescription makes physical result gauge-dependent. On the other hand, such gauge dependence does not appear in the result of the pole mass renormalization prescription. Our calculation also implies that the difference of physical results between the two mass renormalization prescriptions cannot be neglected at two-loop level.


Author(s):  
Rahul Ghosh

Abstract We present a new approach to study the one-dimensional Dirac equation in the background of a position-dependent mass m. Taking the Fermi velocity vf to be a local variable, we explore the resulting structure of the coupled equations and arrive at an interesting constraint of m turning out to be the inverse square of vf. We address several solvable systems that include the free particle, shifted harmonic oscillator, Coulomb and nonpolynomial potentials. In particular, in the supersymmetric quantum mechanics context, the upper partner of the effective potential yields a new form for an inverse quadratic functional choice of the Fermi velocity.


2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 1230003 ◽  
Author(s):  
TIAGO DEBARBA ◽  
REINALDO O. VIANNA

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.


Author(s):  
Sergio Giardino

In this paper, we solve the quaternionic Dirac equation [Formula: see text] in the real Hilbert space, and we ascertain that their free particle solutions set comprises eight elements in the case of a massive particle, and a four elements solutions set in the case of a massless particle, a richer situation when compared to the four elements solutions set of the usual complex Dirac equation [Formula: see text]. These free particle solutions were unknown in the previous solutions of anti-Hermitian quaternionic quantum mechanics, and constitute an essential element in order to build a quaternionic quantum field theory [Formula: see text].


1980 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-357
Author(s):  
Fritz Bopp

AbstractWe are looking for the gauge field theory which corresponds to the U3-invariance of the recently obtained free particle Dirac equation generalized according to an idea of Pais.


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