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arXiv:physics/0410045

Is the Dirac particle composite?

Yuri A. Rylov

Published Oct 7, 2004• 17 citations
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Abstract

Classical model S_{Dcl} of the Dirac particle S_D is constructed. S_D is the dynamic system described by the Dirac equation. For investigation of S_D and construction of S_{Dcl} one uses a new dynamic method: dynamic disquantization. This relativistic purely dynamic procedure does not use principles of quantum mechanics. The obtained classical analog S_{Dcl} is described by a system of ordinary differential equations, containing the quantum constant $\hbar$ as a parameter. Dynamic equations for S_{Dcl} are determined by the Dirac equation uniquely. The dynamic system S_{Dcl} has ten degrees of freedom and cannot be a pointlike particle, because it has an internal structure. There are two ways of interpretation of the dynamic system S_{Dcl}: (1) dynamical interpretation and (2) geometrical interpretation. In the dynamical interpretation the classical Dirac particle S_{Dcl} is a two-particle structure (special case of a relativistic rotator). It explains freely such properties of S_D as spin and magnetic moment, which are strange for pointlike structure. In the geometrical interpretation the world tube of S_{Dcl} is a ''two-dimensional broken band'', consisting of similar segments. These segments are parallelograms (or triangles), but not the straight line segments as in the case of a structureless particle. Geometrical interpretation of the classical Dirac particle S_{Dcl} generates a new approach to the elementary particle theory.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.physics/0410045

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Classical model S{Dcl} of the Dirac particle S_D is constructed. S_D is the dynamic system described by the Dirac equation. For investigation of S_D and construction of S_{Dcl} one uses a new dynamic method: dynamic disquantization. This relativistic purely dynamic procedure does not use principles of quantum mechanics. The obtained classical analog S_{Dcl} is described by a system of ordinary differential equations, containing the quantum constant as a parameter. Dynamic equations for S_{Dcl} are determined by the Dirac equation uniquely. The dynamic system S_{Dcl} has ten degrees of freedom and cannot be a pointlike particle, because it has an internal structure. Internal degrees of freedom appears to be described nonrelativistically. One discusses interplay between the conventional axiomatic methods and the dynamical methods of the quantum systems investigation. In particular, one discusses the reasons, why the internal degrees of freedom of the Dirac particle and their nonrelativistic character were not discovered during eighty years.
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Dirac's equation with static external fields is considered as an equation of relativistic quantum theory, which describes the quantum dynamics of an electron in four-dimensional space-time. It is shown that the Dirac electron has only one intrinsic degree of freedom -- spin. The quantum ensemble of an electron with a given energy consists of two inseparable from each other subensembles of heavy and light spin-1/2 quasiparticles to have opposite (relative) intrinsic parities. In the case of electrical scalar potential nonuniform in the direction of a particle motion, these subensembles behave as analogs of the electrical and magnetic components of the plane monochromatic electromagnetic wave propagating in a dispersive medium, nonuniform in the direction of a wave motion. The role of states with negative energies and the properties of the velocity operator are explained.
The distributed system SD\mathcal{S}_DSD​ described by the Dirac equation is investigated simply as a dynamic system, i.e. without usage of quantum principles. The Dirac equation is described in terms of hydrodynamic variables: 4-flux jij^{i}ji, pseudo-vector of the spin SiS^{i}Si, an action ℏϕ\hbar ϕℏϕ and a pseudo-scalar κκκ. In the quasi-uniform approximation, when all transversal derivatives (orthogonal to the flux vector jij^iji) are small, the system SD\mathcal{S}_DSD​ turns to a statistical ensemble of classical concentrated systems Sdc\mathcal{S}_{dc}Sdc​. Under some conditions the classical system Sdc\mathcal{S}_{dc}Sdc​ describes a classical pointlike particle moving in a given electromagnetic field. In general, the world line of the particle is a helix, even if the electromagnetic field is absent. Both dynamic systems SD\mathcal{S}_DSD​ and Sdc\mathcal{S}_{dc}Sdc​ appear to be non-relativistic in the sense that the dynamic equations written in terms of hydrodynamic variables are not relativistically covariant with respect to them, although all dynamic variables are tensors or pseudo-tensors. They becomes relativistically covariant only after addition of a constant unit timelike vector fif^{i}fi which should be considered as a dynamic variable describing a space-time property. This "constant" variable arises instead of γγγ-matrices which are removed by means of zero divizors in the course of the transformation to hydrodynamic variables. It is possible to separate out dynamic variables κκκ, κiκ^iκi responsible for quantum effects. It means that, setting κ,κi≡0κ,κ^i\equiv 0κ,κi≡0, the dynamic system SD\mathcal{S}_DSD​ described by the Dirac equation turns to a statistical ensemble EDqu\mathcal{E}_{Dqu}EDqu​ of classical dynamic systems Sdc\mathcal{S}_{dc}Sdc​.