Relativistic aberrations in quantum phase space

✍ Scribed by D. Dragoman

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 405 KB
• Volume: 282
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0030-4018
• DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2008.11.072

✦ Synopsis

A phase space treatment of special relativity of quantum systems is developed. In this approach a quantum particle remains localized if subject to inertial transformations, the localization occurring in a finite phase space area. Unlike in the non-relativistic case, relativistic transformations generally distort the phase space distribution function, being equivalent to aberrations in optics. The relativistic aberrations of massive particles are in general different from those of optical images.