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We provide transformation matrices for arbitrary Lorentz transformations of multidimensional Hermite functions in any dimension. These serve as a valuable tool for analyzing spacetime properties of MHS fields, and aid in the description of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-02 Maro Cvitan , Predrag Dominis Prester , Stefano Giaccari , Mateo Paulišić , Ivan Vuković

Traditionally, the theory related to the spatial angular momentum has been studied completely, while the investigation in the generator of Lorentz boost is inadequate. In this paper we show that the generator of Lorentz boost has a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhi-Yong Wang , Cai-Dong Xiong

The canonical decomposition of a Lorentz algebra element into a sum of orthogonal simple (decomposable) Lorentz bivectors is discussed, as well as the decomposition of a proper orthochronous Lorentz transformation into a product of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-27 Jason Hanson

The study of factorization in the linearized gravity is extended to the graviton scattering processes with a massive scalar particle, with a massless vector boson and also with a graviton. Every transition amplitude is shown to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 S. Y. Choi , J. S. Shim , H. S. Song

The extensive analysis of the dynamics of relativistic spinning particles is presented. Using the coadjoint orbits method the Hamiltonian dynamics is explicitly described. The main technical tool is the factorization of general Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-07 Krzysztof Andrzejewski , Cezary Gonera , Joanna Goner , Piotr Kosinski , Pawel Maslanka

Formulae relating one and the same force in two inertial frames of reference are derived directly from the Lorentz transformation of space and time coordinates and relativistic equation for the dynamic law of motion in three dimensions. We…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Valery P. Dmitriyev

We derive the general formula for Lorentz-transformed spin density matrix. It is shown that an appropriate Lorentz transformation can prduce totally unpolarized state out of pure one. Further properties, as depurification by an arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Cezary Gonera , Piotr Kosinski , Pawel Maslanka

Here we discuss a regularized version of the factorization method for positive operators acting on a Hilbert Space. The factorization method is a qualitative reconstruction method that has been used to solve many inverse shape problems. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-11 Isaac Harris

Plane waves and cylindrical or spherical vortex modes are important sets of solutions of quantum and classical wave equations. These are eigenmodes of the energy-momentum and angular-momentum operators, i.e., generators of spacetime…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-01 Konstantin Y. Bliokh

The standard classic special relativistic transformation of the electromagnetic (EM) field under proper Lorentz transformations is revisited. As to the pure Lorentz-boosts, popular treatments on EM transformation contemplate ideal…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Salil K Bedkihal , Rajeev K Pathak

We consider a particle of half-integer spin which is nonrelativistic in the rest frame. Assuming the particle is completely polarized along third axis we calculate the Bloch vector as seen by a moving observer. The result for its length is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Kosinski , P. Maslanka

We perform a canonical quantization of gravity in a second-order formulation, taking as configuration variables those describing a 4-bein, not adapted to the space-time splitting. We outline how, neither if we fix the Lorentz frame before…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Francesco Cianfrani , Giovanni Montani

Lorentz transformations of spin density matrices for a particle with positive mass and spin 1/2 are described by maps of the kind used in open quantum dynamics. They show how the Lorentz transformations of the spin depend on the momentum.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas F. Jordan , Anil Shaji , E. C. G. Sudarshan

The Lorentz transformation is entirely derived from length contraction, itself established through the known light-clock thought experiment . This makes the derivation accessible to beginning students once Eintein's two postulates have been…

General Physics · Physics 2007-09-03 Jean-Michel Levy

Branes and defects in topological Landau-Ginzburg models are described by matrix factorisations. We revisit the problem of deforming them and discuss various deformation methods as well as their relations. We have implemented these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-28 Nils Carqueville , Laura Dowdy , Andreas Recknagel

Positive-definite matrices materialize as state transition matrices of linear time-invariant gradient flows, and the composition of such materializes as the state transition after successive steps where the driving potential is suitably…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Mahmoud Abdelgalil , Tryphon T. Georgiou

We study processes with unstable particles in intermediate time-like states. It is shown that the amplitudes squared of such processes factor exactly in the framework of the model of unstable particles with continuous masses. Decay widths…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-22 V. Kuksa , N. Volchanskiy

The Lorentz transformations are represented by Einstein velocity addition on the ball of relativistically admissible velocities. This representation is by projective maps. The Lie algebra of this representation defines the relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-17 Yaakov Friedman

Simple examples are presented of Lorentz transformations that entangle the spins and momenta of two particles with positive mass and spin 1/2. They apply to indistinguishable particles, produce maximal entanglement from finite Lorentz…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Thomas F. Jordan , Anil Shaji , E. C. G. Sudarshan

Based on the fundamental principles of Relativistic Quantum Mechanics, we give a rigorous, but completely elementary, proof of the relation between fundamental observables of a statistical system when measured relatively to two inertial…

General Physics · Physics 2015-08-21 Massimo Testa