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Lienard-Wiechert potentials of the relativistic spinning particle with anomalous magnetic moment in pseudoclassical theory are constructed. General expressions for the Lienard-Wiechert potentials are used for investigation of some specific…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 S. A. Arakelyan , G. V. Grigoryan , R. P. Grigoryan

The electromagnetic form factors of spin-1/2 particles are known, but due to historical reasons only half of them are found in many textbooks. Given the importance of the general result, its model independence, its connection to discrete…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-11-10 Marek Nowakowski , E. A. Paschos , J. M. Rodriguez

We study the Dirac equation with slowly varying external potentials. Using matrix-valued Wigner functions we prove that the electron follows with high precision the classical orbit and that the spin precesses according to the BMT equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Herbert Spohn

The Pauli equation, an important equation of quantum mechanics, allows us to study the dynamics of spin-$1/2$ particles. The Dunkl derivative, when used instead of the ordinary derivative, leads to obtaining parity-dependent solutions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 H. Bouguerne , B. Hamil , B. C. Lütfüoğlu , M. Merad

We compute, for massive particles, the explicit Wigner rotations of one-particle states for arbitrary Lorentz transformations; and the explicit Hermitian generators of the infinite-dimensional unitary representation. For a pair of spin 1/2…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chopin Soo , Cyrus C. Y. Lin

The structure of the electromagnetic vertex function of spin-3/2 particles is analyzed in a general way, for the diagonal and off-diagonal couplings, of charged as well as neutral particles including the case of self-conjugate (Majorana)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Jose F Nieves

A generalized vector particle theory with the use of an extended set of Lorentz group irredicible representations, including scalar, two 4-vectors, and antisymmetric 2-rang tensor, is investigated. Initial equations depend upon four complex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Kisel , N. G. Tokarevskaya , A. A. Bogush , V. M. Red'kov

The modified Dirac equations describing massless and massive spin-1/2 particles violating the Lorentz invariance are considered. The equation for massless fermions with varying speed is formulated in the 16-component first-order form. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-07 S. I. Kruglov

The connection between spin and symmetry was established by Wigner in his 1939 paper on the Poincar\'e group. For a massive particle at rest, the little group is O(3) from which the concept of spin emerges. The little group for a massless…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. S. Kim

We derive analytical formulas for the equal-time Wigner function in an electromagnetic field of arbitrary strength. While the magnetic field is assumed to be constant, the electric field is assumed to be space-independent and oriented…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-13 Xin-li Sheng , Ren-hong Fang , Qun Wang , Dirk H. Rischke

Expanding on the recent derivation of tidal actions for scalar particles, we present here the action for a tidally deformed spin-$1/2$ particle. Focusing on operators containing two powers of the Weyl tensor, we combine the Hilbert series…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 Rafael Aoude , Kays Haddad , Andreas Helset

The spin-dependent trial wave functions with rotational symmetry are introduced to describe rotating Wigner molecular states with spin degree of freedom in four- and five-electron quantum dots under magnetic fields. The functions are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhensheng Dai , Jia-Lin Zhu , Ning Yang , Yuquan Wang

Starting from the non-relativistic Pauli description of spin-1/2 particles, a set of fluid equations, governing the dynamics of such particles interacting with external fields and other particles, is derived. The equations describe…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Brodin , M. Marklund

The Dirac field, spin 1/2 particles, is investigated in phase space. The Dirac propagator is defined. The Thermo Field Dynamics (TFD) formalism is used to introduce finite temperature. The energy-momentum tensor is calculated at finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-26 R. G. G. Amorim , S. C. Ulhoa , J. S da Cruz Filho , A. F. Santos , F. C. Khanna

We explore the properties of spin splitting for neutral particles possessing electric and magnetic dipole moments propagating in an electromagnetic field. Two notable features of the spin splitting and the associated Larmor precession are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-03 Tihomir G. Tenev , Nikolay V. Vitanov

The exact solution of the Dirac equation for fermions coupled to an external periodic chiral condensate (chiral spiral) is used to obtain the exact formula for the Wigner function (up to the quantum loop corrections). We find that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-29 Samapan Bhadury , Wojciech Florkowski , Sudip Kumar Kar , Valeriya Mykhaylova

In this article, we study the Sagnac effect for spin-$1/2$ particles through local Wigner rotations according to the framework developed by [H. Terashima and M. Ueda, Phys. Rev. A 69, 032113 (2004)]. Since the spin of the particle plays the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Marcos L. W. Basso , Jonas Maziero

Recently (Phys. Rev. Lett. 114 (2015), 210402) the influence of the so called "Wigner translations" (more generally-Lorentz trans- formations) on circularly polarized Gaussian packets ( providing the solution to Maxwell equations in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-22 Katarzyna Bolonek-Lason , Piotr Kosinski , Pawel Maslanka

The dynamics of "dipolar particles", i.e. particles endowed with a four-vector mass dipole moment, is investigated using an action principle in general relativity. The action is a specific functional of the particle's world line, and of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Luc Blanchet

There are constructed exact solutions of the quantum-mechanical equation for a spin S=1 particle in 2-dimensional Riemannian space of constant negative curvature, hyperbolic plane, in presence of an external magnetic field, analogue of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-10-13 E. M. Ovsiyuk , O. V. Veko