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The Zeeman Effect for the Relativistic Bound State

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

In the context of a relativistic quantum mechanics with invariant evolution parameter, solutions for the relativistic bound state problem have been found, which yield a spectrum for the total mass coinciding with the nonrelativistic Schr\"odinger energy spectrum. These spectra were obtained by choosing an arbitrary spacelike unit vector nμn_\mu and restricting the support of the eigenfunctions in spacetime to the subspace of the Minkowski measure space, for which (x)2=[x(xn)n]20(x_\perp )^2 = [x-(x \cdot n) n ]^2 \geq 0. In this paper, we examine the Zeeman effect for these bound states, which requires nμn_\mu to be a dynamical quantity. We recover the usual Zeeman splitting in a manifestly covariant form.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9407075,
  title  = {The Zeeman Effect for the Relativistic Bound State},
  author = {M. C. Land and L. P. Horwitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9407075},
  year   = {2009}
}

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21 pages, TAUP-2150-94

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