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Having treated the quantization of the Klein-Gordon field, we now turn to the study of particles with spin 1/2, which are described by the Dirac equation. We will assume that readers have some familiarity with this equation and refer them to the volume Relativistic Quantum Mechanics in this series of books for details. As in the previous chapters we will again start by considering the Dirac wave function ψ(x, t) as a “classical” field and derive the corresponding wave equation from a Lagrange function. Subsequently this field will be subjected to canonical quantization.
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Greiner, W., Reinhardt, J. (1996). Spin-1/2 Fields: The Dirac Equation. In: Field Quantization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61485-9_5
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