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<language>eng</language>
<publisher>Science and Education Publishing</publisher>
<journalTitle>International Journal of Physics</journalTitle>
<eissn>2333-4576</eissn>
<publicationDate>2023-12-01</publicationDate>
<volume>11</volume>
<issue>6</issue>
<startPage>283</startPage>
<endPage>290</endPage>
<doi>10.12691/ijp-11-6-2</doi>
<publisherRecordId>IJP20231162</publisherRecordId>
<documentType>article</documentType>
<title language="eng">A New Interpretation of the Negative Energy Solutions to Dirac Equation and a Configuration of the Electron</title>
<authors>
<author>
<name>Zhonglin BO</name>
<email>bill.b.bo@dupont.com</email>
<affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
</author>
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<affiliationName affiliationId="1">DuPont China Technical Center, 600 Cailun Road, Shanghai 201203, P.R. China</affiliationName>

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<abstract language="eng">A thorough mathematic analysis was conducted to the negative energy solutions to the Dirac equation in a complex plane due to the fact that the solutions are vectors of complex number. An opposite vector with negative energy state was identified when a vector with positive energy state was defined in a complex plane.  We concluded that any opposite vectors in a complex plane must have opposite energy state because their vector heads move always in opposite direction. We configured an electron as a small ball with dimetric vectors instead of a structureless mass point. Based on the new electron configuration, we explained the particle wave duality as the feature of electron¡¯s spinvector in motion, explained the reason for the electrons with half spin quantum number. And we concluded that de Broglie¡¯s standing waves theory would be more rational than the interpretation by current quantum theory.</abstract>
<fullTextUrl format="pdf">https://pubs.sciepub.com/ijp/11/6/2/ijp-11-6-2.pdf</fullTextUrl>
<keywords language="eng"><keyword>Dirac Equation</keyword>
<keyword>Negative Energy Solution</keyword>
<keyword>Bi-spinor</keyword>
<keyword>Antimatter</keyword>
<keyword>Spin</keyword>
<keyword>Diametric Vectors</keyword>
<keyword>Spinvector</keyword>
<keyword>Electron Configuration</keyword>
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