TY - JOUR
T1 - Electrons and photons: Fact not fiction
AU - Bagan, Emili
AU - Lavelle, Martin
AU - McMullan, David
PY - 2000/3/23
Y1 - 2000/3/23
N2 - The particle Fock space of the matter fields in QED can be constructed using the free creation and annihilation operators. However, these particle operators are not, even at asymptotically large times, the modes of the matter fields that enter the QED Lagrangian. In this letter we construct the fields which do recover such particle modes at large times. We are thus able to demonstrate for the first time that, contrary to statements found in the literature, a relativistic description of charged particles in QED exists. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
AB - The particle Fock space of the matter fields in QED can be constructed using the free creation and annihilation operators. However, these particle operators are not, even at asymptotically large times, the modes of the matter fields that enter the QED Lagrangian. In this letter we construct the fields which do recover such particle modes at large times. We are thus able to demonstrate for the first time that, contrary to statements found in the literature, a relativistic description of charged particles in QED exists. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.
U2 - 10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00171-4
DO - 10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00171-4
M3 - Article
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 477
SP - 396
EP - 400
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
ER -