English
Related papers

Related papers: Relativistic free-particle quantization on the lig…

200 papers

The Dirac procedure for dealing with constraints is applied to the quantization of gauge theories on the light front. The light cone gauge is used in conjunction with the first class constraints that arise and the resulting Dirac brackets…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 D. G. C. McKeon , Chenguang Zhao

We construct a relativistic quantum mechanics for a boson. To do this we exploit two component wave functions in Dirac type equations of motion. In our formalism we fix the pathological aspect of particle probability density which appears…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-14 Soon-Tae Hong

A recent analysis by Pikovski et al. [Nat. Phys. 11, 668 (2015)] has triggered interest in the question of how to include relativistic corrections in the quantum dynamics governing many-particle systems in a gravitational field. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-17 Marko Toroš , André Großardt , Angelo Bassi

We explain what is the challenge of light-front quantisation, and how we can now answer it because of recent progress in solving the problem of zero modes in the case of non-Abelian gauge theories. We also give a description of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor T. Kim , Victor A. Matveev , Grigorii B. Pivovarov , James P. Vary

In the framework of the light-front quantum theory developed by Karmanov et al. an analysis of the experimental data on the tensor analyzing power of the nuclear fragmentation of relativistic deuterons with the large transversal momentum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 L. S. Azhgirey , N. P. Yudin

This note looks at the possibility of a system of free particles presenting decoherence in the total momentum when tracing upon their relative momenta if we take into account a relativistic correction to the expression of the kinetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Carazza

Relativistic quantum mechanics can be considered to have begun with a search for wave equations corresponding to each intrinsic spin. However, relativistic quantum physics differs fundamentally from the non-relativistic wave mechanics. It…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Urjit A. Yajnik

We present results from a study of light meson spectra and structure obtained within the framework of light-front QCD formulated on a transverse lattice. We discuss how imposing Lorentz covariance conditions on meson dispersion relations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Burkardt , S. K. Seal

We analyze time-of-arrival probability distributions for relativistic particles in the context of quantum field theory (QFT). We show that QFT leads to a unique prediction, modulo post-selection that incorporates properties of the apparatus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Charis Anastopoulos , Maria-Electra Plakitsi

We study the fluctuation electromagnetic interaction in a system of two rotating electrically neutral nonmagnetic particles with allowance for relativistic retardation effect. The particles are assumed to have different temperatures being…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-26 A. A. Kyasov , G. V. Dedkov

The light-front quantization of gauge theories such as QCD in light-cone gauge provides a frame-independent wavefunction representation of relativistic bound states, simple forms for current matrix elements, explicit unitarity, and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 S. J. Brodsky

Light-front field theory offers a scenario in which a constituent picture of hadrons may arise, but only if cutoffs that violate explicit covariance and gauge invariance are used. The perturbative renormalization group can be used to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Robert J. Perry

Commutation or anticommutation relations quantized at equal instant time and commutation or anticommutation relations quantized at equal light-front time not only cannot be transformed into each other, they take completely different forms.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-29 Philip D. Mannheim

This paper constructs relativistic quantum mechanical models of particles satisfying cluster properties and the spectral condition which do not conserve particle number. The treatment of particle production is limited to systems with a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 W. N. Polyzou

We revise the problem of the quantization of relativistic particle models (spinless and spinning), presenting a modified consistent canonical scheme. One of the main point of the modification is related to a principally new realization of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-28 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman

We derive relativistic equations for charged and neutral spin particles. The approach for higher-spin particles is based on generalizations of the Bargmann-Wigner formalism. Next, we study, what new physical information can the introduction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-02 Valeri V. Dvoeglazov

We consider the relativistic deformation of quantum waves and mechanical bodies carrying intrinsic angular momentum (AM). When observed in a moving reference frame, the centroid of the object undergoes an AM-dependent transverse shift. This…

Optics · Physics 2012-05-18 Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Franco Nori

The conditions for observation of the particle coordinates, required by logic of the Special Relativity and filtering the quantum field effects, are described. A general relation between the corresponding density of probability and the wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-03 V. F. Krotov

In the light-front (LF) formulation of quantum field theory (QFT), physics is formulated from the perspective of a massless observer necessarily traveling at the speed of light. The LF formulation provides an alternative computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Sam Alterman , Peter J. Love

We present recent developments in the theory of Nambu mechanics, which include new examples of Nambu-Poisson manifolds with linear Nambu brackets and new representations of Nambu-Heisenberg commutation relations.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Rupak Chatterjee , Leon Takhtajan