Nonrelativistic expansion of the Dirac equation with spherical scalar and vector potentials by a reconstituted Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation

Abstract

Inspired by the reconstituted similarity renormalization group method, the reconstituted Foldy-Wouthuysen (FW) transformation is proposed. Applied to the Dirac equation in the covariant density functional theory, the reconstituted FW transformation shows a fast convergence of the spectrum of the single-particle energy. The single-particle densities and the single-particle scalar densities obtained by this new method are also investigated. In particular, the relativistic corrections to the densities from the picture-change error between the Schr\"odinger and Dirac pictures are discussed in detail. Taking these relativistic corrections into account, both the single-particle densities and the single-particle scalar densities are almost identical to their exact values.