Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2006-09-14
J.Phys.A39:12565-12585,2006
Physics
Quantum Physics
22 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in J. Phys. A: Math. & Gen
Scientific paper
10.1088/0305-4470/39/40/020
In standard quantum mechanics, it is not possible to directly extend the Schrodinger equation to spinors, so the Pauli equation must be derived from the Dirac equation by taking its non-relativistic limit. Hence, it predicts the existence of an intrinsic magnetic moment for the electron and gives its correct value. In the scale relativity framework, the Schrodinger, Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations have been derived from first principles as geodesics equations of a non-differentiable and continuous spacetime. Since such a generalized geometry implies the occurence of new discrete symmetry breakings, this has led us to write Dirac bi-spinors in the form of bi-quaternions (complex quaternions). In the present work, we show that, in scale relativity also, the correct Pauli equation can only be obtained from a non-relativistic limit of the relativistic geodesics equation (which, after integration, becomes the Dirac equation) and not from the non-relativistic formalism (that involves symmetry breakings in a fractal 3-space). The same degeneracy procedure, when it is applied to the bi-quaternionic 4-velocity used to derive the Dirac equation, naturally yields a Pauli-type quaternionic 3-velocity. It therefore corroborates the relevance of the scale relativity approach for the building from first principles of the quantum postulates and of the quantum tools. This also reinforces the relativistic and fundamentally quantum nature of spin, which we attribute in scale relativity to the non-differentiability of the quantum spacetime geometry (and not only of the quantum space). We conclude by performing numerical simulations of spinor geodesics, that allow one to gain a physical geometric picture of the nature of spin.
Celerier Marie-Noelle
Nottale Laurent
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