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Stationary Solutions of the Klein-Gordon Equation in a Potential Field

Analysis of PDEs 2010-11-08 v4 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We seek to introduce a mathematical method to derive the Klein-Gordon equation and a set of relevant laws strictly, which combines the relativistic wave functions in two inertial frames of reference. If we define the stationary state wave functions as special solutions like Ψ(r,t)=ψ(r)eiEt/\Psi(\mathbf{r},t)=\psi(\mathbf{r})e^{-iEt/\hbar}, and define m=E/c2m=E/c^2, which is called the mass of the system, then the Klein-Gordon equation can clearly be expressed in a better form when compared with the non-relativistic limit, which not only allows us to transplant the solving approach of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation into the relativistic wave equations, but also proves that the stationary solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation in a potential field have the probability significance. For comparison, we have also discussed the Dirac equation. By introducing the concept of system mass into the Klein-Gordon equation with the scalar and vector potentials, we prove that if the Schr\"{o dinger equation in a certain potential field can be solved exactly, then under the condition that the scalar and vector potentials are equal, the Klein-Gordon equation in the same potential field can also be solved exactly by using the same method.

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@article{arxiv.1008.4224,
  title  = {Stationary Solutions of the Klein-Gordon Equation in a Potential Field},
  author = {Guangqing Bi and Yuekai Bi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.4224},
  year   = {2010}
}