Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Theory
Scientific paper
2007-04-03
Phys.Rev.C75:047303,2007
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Theory
5 pages, uses revtex macros
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevC.75.047303
We show that the conditions which originate the spin and pseudospin symmetries in the Dirac equation are the same that produce equivalent energy spectra of relativistic spin-1/2 and spin-0 particles in the presence of vector and scalar potentials. The conclusions do not depend on the particular shapes of the potentials and can be important in different fields of physics. When both scalar and vector potentials are spherical, these conditions for isospectrality imply that the spin-orbit and Darwin terms of either the upper component or the lower component of the Dirac spinor vanish, making it equivalent, as far as energy is concerned, to a spin-0 state. In this case, besides energy, a scalar particle will also have the same orbital angular momentum as the (conserved) orbital angular momentum of either the upper or lower component of the corresponding spin-1/2 particle. We point out a few possible applications of this result.
Alberto Pedro
de Castro Antonio Soares
Malheiro Manuel
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