scholarly journals CHARGE-SYMMETRIC DESCRIPTION OF ELECTRONS AND POSITRONS IN THE DIRAC THEORY WITHOUT NEGATIVE ENERGIES

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-77
Author(s):  
Yu.M. Poluektov
Keyword(s):  
Negative Energy ◽  
Wave Functions ◽  
Dirac Theory ◽  
Electrons And Positrons ◽  
Negative Energy States ◽  
Energy States

A formulation of the Dirac theory, symmetric with respect to particles and antiparticles, in which negative energy states are excluded, is proposed. Fields of particles and antiparticles are associated with wave functions for which the Born interpretation as probability amplitudes is valid. Thus, in theory, various ”paradoxes” are eliminated, the existence of which is due to incorrect accounting of states with negative energy.

scholarly journals Negative energy states in the Reissner–Nordström metric

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150120
Author(s):  
O. B. Zaslavskii
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Negative Energy ◽  
Infinite Chain ◽  
White Hole ◽  
Negative Energy States ◽  
Energy Formula ◽  
High Energy Collisions ◽  
Energy States

We consider electrogeodesics on which the energy [Formula: see text] in the Reissner–Nordström metric. It is shown that outside the horizon there is exactly one turning point inside the ergoregion for such particles. This entails that such a particle passes through an infinite chain of black–white hole regions or terminates in the singularity. These properties are relevant for two scenarios of high energy collisions in which the presence of white holes is essential.

scholarly journals The vacuum in Dirac's theory of the positive electron

1934 ◽  
Vol 146 (857) ◽  
pp. 420-441 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Energy ◽  
Infinite Number ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Negative Energy ◽  
Positive Energy ◽  
Quantum Mechanical ◽  
Normal Density ◽  
Physical Picture ◽  
Negative Energy States ◽  
Energy States

According to a theory proposed by Dirac one has to picture the vacuum as filled with an infinite number of electrons of negative kinetic energy, the electric density of which is, however, unobservable. One can observe only deviations from this "normal" density which either consist of an addition of electrons in states of positive energy or absence of electrons from some of the negative energy states (positive electrons). The discovery of the positive electron and the observed magnitude of the processes involving it give strong support to this view. This theory, as it stands, however, is not complete because it makes use of infinite quantities which are inadmissible in physical equations. It therefore must be understood (and was meant so by Dirac) to be a physical picture showing a way in which the quantum mechanical equations can probably be modified in order to give account of the positive electron and to solve the difficulty connected with the states of negative energy.

Coherent Scattering of Radiation and Negative Energy States

1949 ◽  
Vol 75 (5) ◽  
pp. 910-911 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otto Halpern ◽  
Harvey Hall
Keyword(s):  
Coherent Scattering ◽  
Negative Energy ◽  
Negative Energy States ◽  
Energy States
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