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The formulation of a rigid body in relativistic quantum mechanics is studied. Departing from an alternate approach at the relativistic classical level, the corresponding Klein-Gordon and Dirac operators for the rigid body are obtained in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Emerson Sadurni

I discuss different formulations of the relativistic few-body problem with an emphasis on how they are related. I first discuss the implications of some of the differences with non-relativistic quantum mechanics. Then I point out that the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-13 Wayne Polyzou

A brief review of the different ways of the Dirac equation derivation is given. The foundations of the relativistic canonical quantum mechanics of a fermionic doublet are formulated. In our approach the Dirac equation is derived from the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-24 V. Simulik , I. Krivsky

In this paper, we propose a new approach to the relativistic quantum mechanics for many-body, which is a self-consistent system constructed by juxtaposed but mutually coupled nonlinear Dirac's equations. The classical approximation of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ying-Qiu Gu

The similarity renormalization group is used to transform Dirac Hamiltonian into a diagonal form, which the upper (lower) diagonal element becomes an operator describing Dirac (anti-)particle. The eigenvalues of the operator are verfied to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Jian-You Guo

It is shown that the use of extended sets of irreducible representations of the Lorentz group opens new possibilities for the theory of relativistic wave equations from the point of view of the space-time description of both the internal…

General Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 V. A. Pletyukhov

This article is concerned with the role of fundamental principles in theoretical physics, especially quantum theory. The fundamental principles of relativity will be be addressed as well in view of their role in quantum electrodynamics and…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Arkady Plotnitsky

The Dirac oscillator is an exactly soluble model recently introduced in the context of many particle models in relativistic quantum mechanics. The model has been also considered as an interaction term for modelling quark confinement in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-15 R. P. Martínez-y-Romero , H. N. Núñez-Yépez , A. L. Salas-Brito

Motivated by generalized uncertainty principle, we derive a discrete picture of the space that respects Lorentz symmetry as well as gauge symmetry through setting an equivalency between linear GUP correction term and electromagnetic…

General Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Ahmed Farag Ali , Barun Majumder , Prabir Rudra

The dynamics of a massive, relativistic spinning particle could be described either by the Dirac equation or by the Kerr solution of Einstein equations. However, one does not know a priori as to which of the two systems of equations should…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Anushrut Sharma , Tejinder P. Singh

The recently introduced $\kappa$-Poincare-Dirac equation is gauged to treat the $\kappa$-Dirac-Coulomb problem. For the resulting equation, we prove that the perturbation to first order in the quantum group parameter vanishes identically.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 L. C. Biedenharn , B. Mueller , M. Tarlini

It is argued from geometrical, group-theoretical and physical points of view that in the framework of QCD it is not only necessary but also possible to modify the Dirac equation so that correspondence principle holds valid. The Dirac wave…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivanhoe Pestov

We propose the fundamental and two dimensional representation of the Lorentz groups on a (3+1)-dimensional hypercubic lattice, from which representations of higher dimensions can be constructed. For the unitary representation of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Lorente , P. Kramer

An overview is given of recent developments in the field of Dirac equations generalized to curved space-times. An illustrative discussion is provided. We conclude with a variation of Dirac's large-number hypothesis which relates a number of…

General Physics · Physics 2014-08-05 U. D. Jentschura

In the present note the expansion of the wave function of a massless particle (with the definite value of its helicity) over the untary irreducible representaions of the Lorentz group (defined on the light cone) is used as for the analog of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 N. B. Skachkov

A special relativity based on the de Sitter group is introduced, which is the theory that might hold up in the presence of a non-vanishing cosmological constant. Like ordinary special relativity, it retains the quotient character of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Aldrovandi , J. P. Beltran Almeida , J. G. Pereira

The algebra of observables associated with a quantum field theory is invariant under the connected component of the Lorentz group and under parity reversal, but it is not invariant under time reversal. If we take general covariance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-28 Peter Morgan

Relativistic invariance in Euclidean formulations of quantum mechanics is discussed. Relativistic treatments of quantum theory are needed to study hadronic systems at sub-hadronic distance scales. Euclidean formulations of relativistic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Gohin Shaikh Samad , Wayne Polyzou

The relativistic quantum equation is proposed for the complex wave function, which has the meaning of a probability amplitude. The Lagrangian formulation of the proposed theory is developed. The problem of spreading of a wave packet in an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-08 Yu. M. Poluektov

We construct new relativistic linear differential equation in $d$ dimensions generalizing Dirac equation by employing the Clifford algebra of the cubic polynomial associated to Klein-Gordon operator multiplied by the mass parameter. Unlike…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Mikhail S. Plyushchay , Michel Rausch de Traubenberg