Velocity in Lorentz-Violating Fermion Theories

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2004-12-10

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0412112v2

Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 125015

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

24 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.71.125015

We consider the role of the velocity in Lorentz-violating fermionic quantum theory, especially emphasizing the nonrelativistic regime. Information about the velocity will be important for the kinematical analysis of scattering and other problems. Working within the minimal standard model extension, we derive new expressions for the velocity. We find that generic momentum and spin eigenstates may not have well-defined velocities. We also demonstrate how several different techniques may be used to shed light on different aspects of the problem. A relativistic operator analysis allows us to study the behavior of the Lorentz-violating Zitterbewegung. Alternatively, by studying the time evolution of Gaussian wave packets, we find that there are Lorentz-violating modifications to the wave packet spreading and the spin structure of the wave function.

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