Localizing the Relativistic Electron

Details Localizing the Relativistic Electron Localizing the Relativistic Electron

1999-03-28

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9903087v1

J.Phys.A32:6127-6139,1999

Physics

Quantum Physics

19 pages including 1 figure (1 LatTex2e file, 1 postscript file). Uses package amssymb. Typos corrected

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/32/34/302

A causally well-behaved solution of the localization problem for the free electron is given, with natural space-time transformation properties, in terms of Dirac's position operator. It is shown that, although this operator does not represent an observable in the usual sense, and has no positive-energy (generalized) eigenstates, the associated 4-vector density is observable, and can be localized arbitrarily precisely about any point in space, at any instant of time, using only positive-energy states. A suitable spin operator can be diagonalized at the same time.

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