Relativistic Quantum Mechanics, an Introdution
- Preface
- 1 Elements of the theory of special relativity
- 1.1 Lorentz transformation for systems in uniform motion
- 1.2 Partial derivatives and quantum mechanical operators
- 1.3 Electromagnetic quantities
- 2 The Dirac equation
- 2.1 The equation
- 2.2 Lorentz-covariance of the Dirac equation (form invariance
- 2.3 Probability density, current density
- 2.4 Nonrelativistic limit of the Dirac equation with electromagnetic fields.
The Pauli term and the spin-orbit energy
- 2.5 The Dirac equation for particles with an anomalous magnetic moment
- 3 Wave functions of Dirac particles
- 3.1 The wave function of a free particle, helicity, the velocity operator
- 3.2 A Dirac particle in a homogeneous magnetic field
- 3.3 Dirac equation with central potential. Parity and total angular momentum
- 3.4 Separation of variables for the Dirac equation with central potential
- 3.5 Solution of the radial equations for a Dirac particle in a Coulomb field
- 3.6 Massless Dirac particles
- 3.7 Particles with arbitrary spin
- 3.8 Charge conjugation. The positron
- 4 Other relativistic quantum mechanical equations
- 4.1 The Klein-Gordon equation
- 4.2 The Klein-Gordon Schrödinger equation
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