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arXiv:1706.08384 · Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy

Pryce’s mass-center operators and the anomalous velocity of a spinning electron

Long Huang, Xiaohua Wu, Tao Zhou

Published May 7, 2018• 3 citations
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10.1007/s11433-017-9170-4

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A manifestly covariant formalism is developed suitable for a discussion of position operators for relativistic systems. It is shown that the rest-frame center of mass and the frame-dependent center of mass, which were studied previously by Pryce and M\o{}ller, and the local Newton-Wigner operator all transform like the spatial part of a four-vector when appropriately interpreted. The formalism allows an equivalent treatment of the space and time components of a position four-vector operator, and manifestly covariant canonical commutation rules are obtained for the three operators mentioned above. Finally it is suggested that the Newton-Wigner operator be interpreted as a center of spin.