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Pure Coulomb tensor interaction in the Dirac equation

Quantum Physics 2019-05-31 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In this work we compute bound solutions for particles and anti-particles of the Dirac equation for a pure tensor radial Coulomb potential plus a constant. We find that the binding depends on the sign the tensor constant potential, and allows only bound solutions for a certain sign and magnitude of the κ\kappa quantum number, which is related to the spin-orbit coupling in the Dirac equation. This relation is reversed for anti-particle solutions. On the other hand, the Coulomb tensor potential, although not biding, changes the range of κ\kappa values for which there are bound solutions.

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@article{arxiv.1905.13162,
  title  = {Pure Coulomb tensor interaction in the Dirac equation},
  author = {M. G. Garcia and S. Pratapsi and P. Alberto and A. S. de Castro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.13162},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

13 pages, 4 figures, uses revtex macros, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A

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