A Flow Equation Approach Striving Towards an Energy-Separating Hamiltonian Unitary Equivalent to the Dirac Hamiltonian with Coupling to Electromagnetic Fields

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12825v2
• Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2022 09:39:32 GMT
• Title: A Flow Equation Approach Striving Towards an Energy-Separating Hamiltonian Unitary Equivalent to the Dirac Hamiltonian with Coupling to Electromagnetic Fields
• Authors: N. Schopohl and N. S. Cetin
• Abstract summary: Dirac Hamiltonian $Hleft(Dright)$ for relativistic charged fermions is transformed with a purpose-built flow equation method. All the relativistic corrections to $Hleft(SPright)$ are explicitly taken into account in the guise of a Magnus type series expansion.
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• Abstract: The Dirac Hamiltonian $H^{\left(D\right)}$ for relativistic charged fermions minimally coupled to (possibly time-dependent) electromagnetic fields is transformed with a purpose-built flow equation method, so that the result of that transformation is unitary equivalent to $H^{\left(D\right)}$ and granted to strive towards a limiting value $H^{\left(NW\right)}$ commuting with the Dirac $\beta$-matrix. Upon expansion of $H^{\left(NW\right)}$ to order $\frac{v^2}{c^2}$ the nonrelativistic Hamiltonian $H^{\left(SP\right)}$ of Schr\"odinger-Pauli quantum mechanics emerges as the leading order term adding to the rest energy $mc^2$. All the relativistic corrections to $H^{\left(SP\right)}$ are explicitly taken into account in the guise of a Magnus type series expansion, the series coefficients generated to order $\left(\frac{v^{2}}{c^{2}}\right)^{n}$ for $n\geq2$ comprising partial sums of iterated commutators only. In the special case of static fields the equivalence of the flow equation method with the well known energy-separating unitary transformation of Eriksen is established on the basis of an exact solution of a reverse flow equation transforming the $\beta$-matrix into the energy-sign operator associated with $H^{\left(D\right)}$. That way the identity $H^{\left(NW\right)}=\beta\sqrt{H^{\left(NW\right)}H^{\left(NW\right)}}$ is established implying $H^{\left(NW\right)}$ being determined unambiguously.

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