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Already in Sect. 2.3 we dealt with the single particle aspects of Dirac waves. In order to gain a deeper understanding and a possible interpretation of the free solutions, we study wave packets. These are superpositions of plane waves which yield localized wave functions in space time. Since the Dirac equation is a linear wave equation, the wave packets are also solutions of the free Dirac equation, which is just the superposition principle.
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Greiner, W. (1990). Wave Packets of Plane Dirac Waves. In: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88082-7_8
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