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Il Nuovo Cimento B

Exchange interactions and mass-eigenvalues of relativistic two-particle quantum mixtures

S. Rupp, M. Sorg

Published May 1, 2002• 0 citations
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Abstract

Within the framework of Relativistic Schrodinger Theory (RST), the static two-particle solutions of the RST dynamics in an external binding force field (Coulomb potential) are studied in detail. The typical quantum effects occurring in bound two-particle systems (such as particle indistinguishability, entanglement, and ortho-para splitting of the energy levels) turn out to be implications of the RST dynamics itself, not implications of an additional (anti-)symmetrization postulate as in the conventional quantum theory. The RST lowest-order approximations for the 2-particle energy levels are closer to the experimental values than the corresponding predictions of the conventional theory by (roughly) one order of magnitude.

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Within the framework of relativistic Schr\"odinger theory (RST), the problem of bound two-particle states is studied and compared to the analogous results of conventional quantum theory. The standard dichotomy of symmetric and antisymmetric quantum states finds its RST analog in the form of the positive and negative mixtures. Similarly the conventional exchange degeneracy has its RST counterpart in the form of a certain mixture degeneracy which, however, is not broken by the interparticle interactions as in the standard quantum theory. The corresponding group of quasilinear mixing transformations turns out to be continuous [in contrast to the discrete operations of (anti)symmetrization in the conventional theory] and is closely related to the Lorentz group SO(1,1) in two dimensions. The group properties can be exploited to generate exact solutions for the mixture dynamics from the pure-state configurations where, however, certain physical quantities remain invariant: scalar densities, currents, energy eigenvalues.
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The relativistic Schrödinger theory (RST) is applied to a general 2-particle system with electromagnetic interactions. The emphasis of the investigation lies on the exchange and overlap effects in connection with the development of adequate single-particle and 2-particle concepts. It is possible to eliminate the 2-particle quantities and to formulate the 2-particle theory exclusively in terms of single-particle quantities but then there arises a new unobservable field degree of freedom: ` renormalization '.
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