Operators of quantum theory of Dirac's free field
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12182v8
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 16:01:48 GMT
- Title: Operators of quantum theory of Dirac's free field
- Authors: Ion I. Cotaescu,
- Abstract summary: The quantum theory of free Dirac's massive fermions is reconstructed around a new conserved spin operator.
It is shown that an apparatus measuring these new observables may prepare and detect one-particle wave-packets moving uniformly without zitterbewegung or spin dynamics.
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- Abstract: The quantum theory of free Dirac's massive fermions is reconstructed around the new conserved spin operator and its corresponding position one proposed initially by Pryce long time ago and re-defined recently with the help of a new spin symmetry and suitable spectral representations. [I. I. Cot\u{a}escu, Eur. Phys. J. C (2022) 82:1073]. This approach is generalized here defining the operator action in passive mode, associating to any integral operator in configuration representation a pair of integral operators acting directly on particle and antiparticle wave spinors in momentum representation instead on the mode spinors. This framework allows an effective quantization procedure giving a large set of one-particle operators with physical meaning as the spin and orbital parts of the isometry generators, the Pauli-Lubanski and position operators or other spin-type operators proposed so far. A special attention is paid to the operators which mix the particle and antiparticle sectors whose off-diagonal associated operators have oscillating terms producing zitterbevegung. The principal operators of this type including the usual coordinate operator are derived here for the first time. As an application, it is shown that an apparatus measuring these new observables may prepare and detect one-particle wave-packets moving uniformly without zitterbewegung or spin dynamics, spreading in time normally as any other relativistic even non-relativistic wave-packet.
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