Foldy-Wouthuysen Transformation for a Spinning Particle with Anomalous Magnetic Moment

Apr, 2009
10 pages
Published in:
  • J.Phys.A 42 (2009) 355302
e-Print:
Report number:
  • FIRENZE-PREPRINT-DFF-447-01-09

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We study the Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation for a pseudoclassical particle with anomalous magnetic moment in an external, stationary electromagnetic field. We show that the transformation can be expressed in a closed form for neutral particles in purely electrostatic fields and for neutral and charged particles in external magnetostatic fields. The explicit expressions of the diagonalized Hamiltonians are calculated.
Note:
  • 10 pages
  • particle: spin
  • Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation
  • magnetic moment: anomaly
  • electromagnetic field
  • charged particle
  • neutral particle
  • external field: electrostatic
  • constraint: Dirac