Beyond the light-cone propagation of relativistic wavefunctions: numerical results

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08400v1
• Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 10:48:38 GMT
• Title: Beyond the light-cone propagation of relativistic wavefunctions: numerical results
• Authors: X. Gutierrez de la Cal and, A. Matzkin
• Abstract summary: relativistic wavefunctions formally propagate beyond the light cone when the propagator is limited to the positive energy sector. By construction, this is the case for solutions of the Salpeter (or relativistic Schr"odinger) equation or for Klein-Gordon and Dirac wavefunctions defined in the Foldy-Wouthuysen representation.
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• Abstract: It is known that relativistic wavefunctions formally propagate beyond the light cone when the propagator is limited to the positive energy sector. By construction, this is the case for solutions of the Salpeter (or relativistic Schr\"odinger) equation or for Klein-Gordon \ and Dirac wavefunctions defined in the Foldy-Wouthuysen representation. In this work we investigate quantitatively the degree of non-causality for free propagation for different types of wavepackets all having initially a compact spatial support. In the studied examples we find that non-causality appears as a small transient effect that can in most cases be neglected. We display several numerical results and discuss the fundamental and practical consequences of our findings concerning this peculiar dynamical feature.

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