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The Dirac equation can be modelled as a quantum walk, with the quantum walk being: discrete in time and space (i.e. a unitary evolution of the wave-function of a particle on a lattice); homogeneous (i.e. translation-invariant and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-07 Pablo Arrighi , Marcelo Forets , Vincent Nesme

A simple translation between a standard representation of $\mathfrak{sl}_2\mathbb{C}$ and the complex-quaternions ($\mathbb{H}\otimes_\mathbb{R}\mathbb{C}$) is established and exploited to construct a novel hyper-complex description of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 James Henry Atwater , David Lambert , Yuri Rostovtsev

If electron zitterbewegung is a real effect, it should generate an electric dipole field oscillating with the zitterbewegung frequency 2mc^2/hbar. The possibility of detecting it as a resonance in electron channeling is analyzed.

General Physics · Physics 2008-02-25 David Hestenes

We analyse the motion of the spinning body (in the pole-dipole approximation) in the gravitational and electromagnetic fields described by the Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon-Souriau equations. First, we define a novel spin condition for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-28 K. Andrzejewski

Quantum Cellular Automaton (QCA) is a model for universal quantum computation and a natural candidate for digital quantum simulation of relativistic quantum fields. Here we introduce the first photonic platform for implementing…

The electron kinetics in moving and standing striations in direct current and radio-frequency discharges is studied. The discharge current is such that the thermalizing electron-electron collisions are negligible and the hydrodynamic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Dmitry Levko

Zitterbewegung (ZBW), the trembling motion predicted by the Dirac equation, has long remained unobservable in free electrons due to its sub-Compton scale. We elaborately construct a relativistic vortex electron wave packet as a coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Zhongze Guo , Bei Xu , Qiang Gu

In a previous work we have described the classical structure and analyzed the interaction of the classical Dirac particle with uniform and oscillating electric and magnetic fields. In the present paper we consider the interaction of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Juan Barandiaran , Martin Rivas

We obtain by invariance arguments the relativistic and non-relativistic invariant dynamical equations of a classical model of a spinning electron. We apply the formalism to a particular classical model which satisfies Dirac's equation when…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Rivas

In analogy to the harmonic analysis for the Poincar\'e group with its irreducible representations characterizing free particles, the harmonic analysis for a nonlinear spacetime model as homogenous space of the extended Lorentz group GL(C^2)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Heinrich Saller

The effects on the spin state of an electron in a time independent electric field are examined. The probability of spin flipping is calculated, and other effects are studied using the minimally coupled Dirac equation.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-04 Richard T. Hammond

Reformulation of Dirac equation in terms of real quadratic division algebra of quaternions is given. Similar equations with different mass term are identified as suitable for description of free propagating quark motion. The complete…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Sepunaru

The semiclassical approximation for the Hamiltonian of Dirac particles interacting with an arbitrary gravitational field is investigated. The time dependence of the metrics leads to new contributions to the in-band energy operator in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-19 Pierre Gosselin , Herve Mohrbach

We demonstrate both classically and quantum mechanically that the Zitterbewegung (ZB, the trembling motion) of electrons in crystalline solids is nothing else, but oscillations of velocity assuring the energy conservation when the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-11 Wlodek Zawadzki , Tomasz M. Rusin

We are looking at a Dirac electron in the electromagnetic field of a plane monochrome polarized X-ray. It will be attempted to link the terms of a certain (joint) asymptotic expansion of the Heisenberg propagations of momentum- and…

General Physics · Physics 2018-01-08 H. O. Cordes

The relativistic semiclassical evolution of the position of an electron in the presence of an external electromagnetic field is studied in terms of a Newton equation that incorporates spin effects directly. This equation emerges from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-13 R. Gutierrez-Jauregui , R. Perez-Pascual , R. Jauregui

The motion of circular WP for one electron in central Coulomb field with high Z is calculated. The WP is defined in terms of solutions of the Dirac equation in order to take into account all possible relevant effects in particular the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Arvieu , P. Rozmej , M. Turek

Starting with the results obtained in a previous paper in which classical local U(1) gauge invariance in terms of the electromagnetic field strenghts instead of the usual formulation mediated by the four potential was introduced it is shown…

General Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 J. Buitrago

We consider properties of a two-dimensional electron system in a random magnetic field. It is assumed that the magnetic field not only influences orbital electron motion but also acts on the electron spin. For calculations, we suggest a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kazutaka Takahashi , K. B. Efetov

The fundamental solution of the Dirac equation for an electron in an electromagnetic field with harmonic dependence on space-time coordinates is obtained. The field is composed of three standing plane harmonic waves with mutually orthogonal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-11 G. N. Borzdov