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Semiclassical Limit of the Dirac Equation and Spin Precession

✍ Scribed by Herbert Spohn

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
126 KB
Volume
282
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-4916

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✦ Synopsis

We study the Dirac equation with slowly varying external potentials. Using matrix-valued Wigner functions we prove that the electron follows with high precision the classical orbit and that the spin precesses according to the BMT equation with gyromagnetic ratio g=2. 2000

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