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Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2733–2735 (1990)

Relativistic virial theorem

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Wolfgang Lucha
Institut für Hochenergiephysik, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, A-1050 Wien, Austria

Franz F. Schöberl
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Wien, A-1090 Wien, Austria

Received 4 December 1989; published in the issue dated 4 June 1990

The relativistic generalization of the quantum-mechanical virial theorem is derived and used to clarify the connection between the nonrelativistic and (semi)relativistic treatment of bound states.

© 1990 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.2733
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.2733
PACS:
03.65.Bz, 03.65.Ge, 11.10.Qr, 12.40.Qq