Zhi-Gang Wang , Wei-Min Yang and Shao-Long Wan 1 Department of Physics, North China Electric Power University, Baoding 071003, P. R. China † 2 CCAST (World Laboratory), P.O.Box 8730, Beijing 100080, P. R. China 3 Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China In this article, we investigate the structures of the pseudoscalar mesons (π, K, ...

A popular three-dimensional reduction of the Bethe–Salpeter formalism for the description of bound states in quantum field theory is the Salpeter equation, derived by assuming both instantaneous interactions and free propagation of all bound-state constituents. Numerical (variational) studies of the Salpeter equation with confining interaction, however, observed specific instabilities of the so...

The Bethe–Salpeter equation for bound states of a fermion–antifermion pair in the instantaneous approximation for the involved interaction kernel is converted into an equivalent matrix eigenvalue problem with explicitly (algebraically) given matrices. PACS numbers : 11.10.St, 03.65.Ge ∗ E-mail address : [email protected] ‡ E-mail address : [email protected] † E-mail address : franz.schoebe...

Several numerical investigations of the Salpeter equation with static confining interactions of Lorentz-scalar type revealed that its solutions are plagued by instabilities of presumably Klein-paradox nature. By proving rigorously that the energies of all predicted bound states are part of real, entirely discrete spectra bounded from below, these instabilities are shown, for confining interacti...

We show the light-front representation of the field theoretical Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) in the ladder approximation using the quasi potential reduction. We discuss the equivalence of the covariant ladder Bethe-Salpeter equation with an infinite set of coupled equations for the Green’s functions of the different light-front Fock-states.

Applying the variational method, the spinless reduced Bethe-Salpeter (RBS) equation is solved for the mesonic systems, and the mass spectra are obtained. The method is applied to the Hamiltonian with the Gaussian and hydrogen-type trial wave functions, and different potential models are examined. The results for the different potentials are in challenge in light mesons, while they are consisten...

The spinless Salpeter equation presents a rather particular differential operator. In this paper we rewrite this equation into integral and integro-differential equations. This kind of equations are well known and can be more easily handled. We also present some analytical results concerning the spinless Salpeter equation and the action of the square-root operator. 03.65.Pm, 02.30.Rz Typeset us...

The eigenvalue equation of a semirelativistic Hamiltonian composed of the relativistic kinetic term of spin-0 particles and static interactions is called spinless Salpeter equation. It is regarded as relativistic generalization of the nonrelativistic Schrödinger approach, or as approximation to the homogeneous Bethe–Salpeter equation in its instantaneous limit. The nonlocality inherent to this ...