Pseudospin, Spin, and Coulomb Dirac-Symmetries: Doublet Structure and Supersymmetric Patterns

Abstract

Relativistic symmetries of the Dirac Hamiltonian with a mixture of spherically symmetric Lorentz scalar and vector potentials, are examined from the point of view of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The cases considered include the Coulomb, pseudospin and spin limits relevant, respectively, to atoms, nuclei and hadrons.

Comments: 8 pages, 1 figure, Proc. Int. Workshop on "Blueprints for the Nucleus: From First Principles to Collective Motion", May 17-23, 2004, Feza Gursey Institute, Istanbul, Turkey