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The study of a Dirac particle in a spherical well is similar to that of the nonrelativistic case, up to a few complications. First, we must work with two coupled equations. Second, we have to distinguish between scalar potentials and “vector” potentials, for which the potential is the fourth component of a Minkowski four-vector. We will study the first case only; the second may be found in the treatise of Greiner, Müller and Rafelski (1985). We then consider a scalar well (more precisely, a barrier) with potential
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Ynduráin, F.J. (1996). Dirac Particle in a Potential. In: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Introduction to Field Theory. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61057-8_4
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