{"title":"Electromagnetic Current Operators for Phenomenological Relativistic Models","authors":"W. N. Polyzou","doi":"10.1007/s00601-023-01871-4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Phenomenological Poincaré invariant quantum mechanical models can provide an efficient description of the dynamics of strongly interacting particles that is frame independent and consistent with spectral and scattering observables. These models are representation dependent and in order to apply them to reactions with electromagnetic probes it is necessary to use a consistent electromagnetic current operator. The purpose of this work is to use local gauge invariance to construct consistent strong current operators. Current operators are constructed from a model Hamiltonian by replacing momentum operators in the Weyl representation by gauge covariant derivatives. The construction provides a systematic method to construct expressions for current operators that are consistent with relativistic models of strong interaction dynamics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":556,"journal":{"name":"Few-Body Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Few-Body Systems","FirstCategoryId":"101","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00601-023-01871-4","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Phenomenological Poincaré invariant quantum mechanical models can provide an efficient description of the dynamics of strongly interacting particles that is frame independent and consistent with spectral and scattering observables. These models are representation dependent and in order to apply them to reactions with electromagnetic probes it is necessary to use a consistent electromagnetic current operator. The purpose of this work is to use local gauge invariance to construct consistent strong current operators. Current operators are constructed from a model Hamiltonian by replacing momentum operators in the Weyl representation by gauge covariant derivatives. The construction provides a systematic method to construct expressions for current operators that are consistent with relativistic models of strong interaction dynamics.
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The journal Few-Body Systems presents original research work – experimental, theoretical and computational – investigating the behavior of any classical or quantum system consisting of a small number of well-defined constituent structures. The focus is on the research methods, properties, and results characteristic of few-body systems. Examples of few-body systems range from few-quark states, light nuclear and hadronic systems; few-electron atomic systems and small molecules; and specific systems in condensed matter and surface physics (such as quantum dots and highly correlated trapped systems), up to and including large-scale celestial structures.
Systems for which an equivalent one-body description is available or can be designed, and large systems for which specific many-body methods are needed are outside the scope of the journal.
The journal is devoted to the publication of all aspects of few-body systems research and applications. While concentrating on few-body systems well-suited to rigorous solutions, the journal also encourages interdisciplinary contributions that foster common approaches and insights, introduce and benchmark the use of novel tools (e.g. machine learning) and develop relevant applications (e.g. few-body aspects in quantum technologies).