Quasi-classical methods for particles with spin

Mirjana Božić, Z. Marić

Ralph Schiller

The quasi-classical spin theory is a modified Hamilton-Jacobi theory for a classical relativistic dipole whose space-time trajectory is coupled to its spin motion. The equations of this quasi-classical theory are almost identical with the second-order (squared) Dirac equation, and, in fact, form a new WKB approximation to the second-order Dirac equation. We quantize this theory by requiring that a classical spinor "wave function" be continuous and single valued, and that it satisfy an eigenvalue equation. We find for a particle in a uniform magnetic field, and in a Coulomb field, that this quasi-classical theory predicts the same energy and angular momentum eigenvalues as the Dirac theory. The quasi-classical theory is invariant under Lorentz transformation, spin rotations, and charge conjugation. The spinor wave functions are form invariant with respect to arbitrary canonical transformations.

Jun'ichi Ozaki, Masaki Tezuka, Norio Kawakami

Recently, many experiments with cold atomic gases have been conducted from interest in the non-equilibrium dynamics of correlated quantum systems. Of these experiments, the mixing dynamics of fermion clusters motivates us to research cluster-cluster collision dynamics in one-dimensional Fermi systems. We adopt the one-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model and apply the time-dependent density matrix renormalization group method. We simulate collisions between two fermion clusters of spin-up and spin-down and calculate reflectance of the clusters R changing the particle number in each cluster and the interaction strength between two fermions with up and down spins. We also evaluate the quasi-classical (independent collision) reflectance R qc to compare it with R . The quasi-classical picture is quantitatively valid in the limit of weak interaction, but it is not valid when interaction is strong.

Andreas Wipf

Marek Czachor

Владимир Владимирович Белов, D Boltovskij, Andrey Yu. Trifonov

The first order quantum correction is obtained for the characteristics of spontaneous radiation as a functional of a classical trajectory by means of quasi-classical trajectory–coherent states method for relativistic spinless particle in an arbitrary external electro-magnetic field. It is shown that the power of boson radiation coincides up to O (ħ2), ħ → 0 with the power of electron radiation averaged over spin states calculated by the TC-states of the Dirac equation. Certain specific examples are considered on the base of a general formula for the radiation power in the non-relativistic approximation, in particular, an expression for the radiation power in an axially symmetric magnetic field is obtained.