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Photonic realization of the kappa-deformed Dirac equation

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2021-07-28 v1 Optics

Abstract

We show an implementation of a kappa-deformed Dirac equation in tight-binding arrays of photonic waveguides. This is done with a special configuration of couplings extending to second nearest neighbors. Geometric manipulations can control these evanescent couplings. A careful study of wave packet propagation is presented, including the effects of deformation parameters on Zitterbewegung or trembling motion. In this way, we demonstrate how to recreate the effects of a flat noncommutative spacetime -i.e., kappa-Minkowski spacetime -in simple experimental setups. We touch upon elastic realizations in the section of Conclusions.

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@article{arxiv.2012.06037,
  title  = {Photonic realization of the kappa-deformed Dirac equation},
  author = {Parisa Majari and Emerson Sadurni and Mohammad Reza Setare and John Alexander Franco-Villafane and Thomas H. Seligman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.06037},
  year   = {2021}
}