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Probability current in zero-spin relativistic quantum mechanics

Quantum Physics 2023-11-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We show that the antisymmetric spinor tensor representation of spin-0 relativistic quantum mechanics provides a conserved current with positive definite timelike component, interpretable as probability density. The construction runs in complete analogy to the spin-1/2 case, and provides an analogously natural one-particle Hilbert space description for spin 0. Except for the free particle, the obtained formulation proves to be inequivalent to the one based on the Klein--Gordon equation. The second quantized version may lead to new field theoretical interaction terms for zero-spin particles.

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@article{arxiv.1712.08220,
  title  = {Probability current in zero-spin relativistic quantum mechanics},
  author = {Tamás Fülöp and Tamás Matolcsi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.08220},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

9 pages, no figures; material presented at the Zim\'anyi School, December 7-11, 2015, Budapest, Hungary

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