Covariant EBK quantization of the electromagnetic two-body problem

Details Covariant EBK quantization of the electromagnetic two-body problem Covariant EBK quantization of the electromagnetic two-body problem

2004-05-14

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0405065v1

Physics

Classical Physics

21 pages

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1999567

We discuss a method to transform the covariant Fokker action into an implicit two-degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian for the electromagnetic two-body problem with arbitrary masses. This dynamical system appeared 100 years ago and it was popularized in the 1940's by the still incomplete Wheeler and Feynman program to quantize it as a means to overcome the divergencies of perturbative QED. Our finite-dimensional implicit Hamiltonian is closed and involves no series expansions. The Hamiltonian formalism is then used to motivate an EBK quantization based on the classical trajectories with a non-perturbative formula that predicts energies free of infinities.

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