Published February 9, 2007
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Journal article
Covariant path integral for the Dirac equation with pseudoscalar potentials
Creators
- 1. L.P.Th, Universite de Jijel, BP 98, Ouled Aissa, Jijel 18000 (Algeria)
- 2. Departement de Physique, Faculte de Sciences, Universite Mentouri, Route Ain El-Bey, Constantine 25000 (Algeria)
Description
The problem of a relativistic spinning particle interacting with pseudoscalar potentials in (3 + 1) dimensions is formulated in the framework of covariant supersymmetric path integrals. The relative Green's function is expressed through a functional integral over bosonic trajectories that describe the external motion and fermionic variables that describe the spin degrees of freedom. As an application, we have considered the case of the plane wave, where the pseudoscalar potential is an arbitrary function of the variable (kμxμ). The (3 + 1)-dimensional problem is reduced to a (1 + 1)-dimensional one by using an identity. For the case of k2 = 0, the relative propagator is exactly calculated and the wavefunctions are extracted
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1088/1751-8113/40/6/012;
- PII
- S1751-8113(07)35964-7;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and Theoretical (Online)
- Journal Volume
- 40
- Journal Issue
- 6
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1349-1359
- ISSN
- 1751-8121
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 38072724
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DIRAC EQUATION; FERMIONS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; GREEN FUNCTION; PATH INTEGRALS; POTENTIALS; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; SPIN; SUPERSYMMETRY; WAVE FUNCTIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ENERGY RANGE; EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRALS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; SYMMETRY; WAVE EQUATIONS