Published October 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Dirac sea for bosons also and SUSY for single particles

  • 1. Osaka Univ., Dept. of Physics, Toyonaka, Osaka (Japan)
  • 2. Niels Bohr Institute, University Copenhagen, Copenhagen (Denmark)
  • 3. Kyoto Univ., Yukawa Inst. for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Kyoto (Japan)

Description

We consider the long standing problem in field theories of bosons that the boson vacuum does not consist of a 'sea', unlike the fermion vacuum. We show with the help of supersymmetry considerations that the boson vacuum indeed does also consist of a sea in which the negative energy states are all filled', analogous to the Dirac sea of the fermion vacuum, and that a hole produced by the annihilation of one negative energy boson is an anti-particle. This might be formally coped with by introducing the notion of a double harmonic oscillator, which is obtained by extending the condition imposed on the wave function. Next, we present an attempt to formulate the supersymmetric and relativistic quantum mechanics utilizing the equations of motion. (author)

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Progress of Theoretical Physics, Supplement
Journal Issue
no.164
Journal Page Range
p. 68-81
ISSN
0375-9687

Conference

Title
International workshop 'frontiers of quantum physics'
Dates
17-19 Feb 2006
Place
Kyoto (Japan)

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Notes
8 refs., 2 figs., 1 tab.