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Exact correspondence between classical and Dirac-Pauli spinors in the weak-field limit of static and homogeneous electromagnetic fields
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- It has long been speculated that the Dirac or, more generally, the Dirac-Pauli spinor in the Foldy-Wouthuysen (FW) representation should behave like a classical relativistic spinor in the low-energy limit when the probability of particle-antiparticle pair creation and annihilation is negligible. In the weak-field limit of static and homogeneous electromagnetic fields, by applying the method of direct perturbation theory inductively on the orders of $1/c$ in the power series, we rigorously prove that it is indeed the case: the FW transformation of the Dirac-Pauli Hamiltonian is in full agreement with the classical counterpart, which is the sum of the orbital Hamiltonian for the Lorentz force equation and the spin Hamiltonian for the Thomas-Bargmann-Michel-Telegdi equation.<br />Comment: 6 pages; brief summary of the main result of arXiv:1405.4495; v3: minor improvements made; the main reference updated
- Subjects :
- Quantum Physics
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1504.03453
- Document Type :
- Working Paper