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Generalization of Dirac Non-Linear Electrodynamics, and Spinning Charged Particles

Quantum Physics 2015-06-26 v1

Abstract

In this note we generalized the Dirac non-linear electrodynamics, by introducing two potentials (namely, the vector potential A and the pseudo-vector potential gamma^5 B of the electromagnetic theory with charges and magnetic monopoles) and by imposing the pseudoscalar part of the product omega.omega* to be zero, with omega = A + gamma^5 B. We show that the field equations of such a theory possess a soliton-like solution which can represent a priori a "charged particle", since it is endowed with a Coulomb field plus the field of a magnetic dipole. The rest energy of the soliton is finite, and the angular momentum stored in its electromagnetic field can be identified --for suitable choices of the parameters-- with the spin of the charged particle. Thus this approach seems to yield a classical model for the charged (spinning) particle, which does not meet the problems met by earlier attempts in the same direction.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9803028,
  title  = {Generalization of Dirac Non-Linear Electrodynamics, and Spinning Charged Particles},
  author = {W. A. Rodrigues and Jayme Vaz and Erasmo Recami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9803028},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

standard LaTeX file; 16 pages; it is a corrected version of a paper appeared in Found. Phys. (issue in honour of A.O.Barut) 23 (1993) 469

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