Relativistic Mechanics Theory for Electrons that Exhibits Spin, Zitterbewegung, Superposition and Produces Dirac's Wave Equation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.07267v3
• Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:15:11 GMT
• Title: Relativistic Mechanics Theory for Electrons that Exhibits Spin, Zitterbewegung, Superposition and Produces Dirac's Wave Equation
• Authors: James L. Beck (California Institute of Technology)
• Abstract summary: The spin of an electron is a natural part of its space-time path as a point particle. The total motion can be decomposed into a sum of a local spin motion about a point and a global motion of this point, called the spin center.
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• Abstract: A neo-classical relativistic mechanics theory is presented where the spin of an electron is a natural part of its space-time path as a point particle. The fourth-order equation of motion corresponds to the same Lagrangian function in proper time as in special relativity except for an additional spin energy term. The total motion can be decomposed into a sum of a local spin motion about a point and a global motion of this point, called the spin center. The global motion is sub-luminal and obeys Newton's second law in proper time, the time for a clock fixed at the spin center, while the total motion occurs at the speed of light c, consistent with the eigenvalues of Dirac's velocity operators having magnitude c. The local spin motion corresponds to Schr\"odinger's zitterbewegung and is a perpetual motion, which for a free electron has a circular path in the spin-center frame. In an electro-magnetic field, this spin motion generates magnetic and electric dipole energies through the Lorentz force on the electron's point charge. The corresponding electric dipole energy is consistent with the spin-orbit coupling term in the corrected Pauli non-relativistic Hamiltonian but the magnetic dipole energy is one half of that in Dirac's theory. By defining a spin tensor as the angular momentum of the electron's total motion about its spin center, the fundamental equations of motion can be re-written in an identical form to those of the Barut-Zanghi electron theory. These equations of motion can then be expressed using operators applied to a state function of proper time satisfying a Dirac-Schr\"odinger spinor equation. The operators produce dynamic variables without any probability implications. For the free electron, the state function satisfies Dirac's relativistic wave equation when the Lorentz transformation is applied to express proper time in terms of an observer's space-time coordinates.

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