Cosmological Zitterbewegung
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-06-15 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We describe a new phenomenon of zitterbewegung of a free Dirac particle in cosmological spacetimes. Unlike the similar effect theorized by Schrodinger in 1930, the cosmological zitterbewegung is a real, physically attainable effect, which originates from the mixing of positive and negative frequency modes of a field operator in cosmological spacetimes. We briefly discuss the potential for observing this effect in laboratory experiments with trapped ions.
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@article{arxiv.1305.3372,
title = {Cosmological Zitterbewegung},
author = {Parth Girdhar and Archil Kobakhidze},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.3372},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
5 pages. This essay received an Honorable Mention in the Gravity Research Foundation essay contest 2013