The Wigner-Weyl formalism and the semi-classical relativistic approximation

1993/07/21 by J. Mourad, Mourad, J.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9307135

6 pages

arxiv created 1993/07/21 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

The relativistic semi-classical approximation for a free massive particle is studied using the Wigner-Weyl formalism. A non-covariant Wigner function is proposed using the Newton-Wigner position operator. The perturbative solution for the time evolution is found. Causality is found to be perturbatively respected.

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