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Recent work that treats the Hawking radiation as a semi-classical tunnelling process from the four-dimensional Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstrom black holes is extended to the case of higher dimensional Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Shuang-Qing Wu , Qing-Quan Jiang

Hawking radiation can usefully be viewed as a semi-classical tunnelling process that originates at the black hole horizon. For the stationary axisymmetric BTZ black hole, a generalized Painleve coordinate system (Painleve-BTZ coordinates)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Wenbiao Liu

One-electron 3+1 and 2+1 Dirac equations are used to calculate the motion of a relativistic electron in a vacuum in the presence of an external magnetic field. First, calculations are carried on an operator level and exact analytical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-17 Tomasz M. Rusin , Wlodek Zawadzki

In this paper, we consider the Zitterbewegung (ZB) effect for Klein-Gordon particles induced by a cosmic string, near which curvature effects play a dominant role. An analytical expression for the current is obtained and analyzed.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-12 M. B. Belonenko , N. N. Konobeeva

Hawking radiation from black hole horizon can be viewed as a quantum tunnelling process, and fermions via tunnelling can successfully recover Hawking temperature. In this paper, considering the tunnelling particles with spin 1/2 (namely,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 De-You Chen , Qing-Quan Jiang , Xiao-Tao Zu

The Dirac equation is reinterpreted as a constitutive equation for singularities in the electromagnetic vacuum, with the electron as a point singularity on a lightlike toroidal vortex. The diameter of the vortex is a Compton wavelength and…

General Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 David Hestenes

Recently, Hawking radiation has been treated, by Robinson and Wilczek, as a compensating flux of the energy momentum tensor required to cancel gavitational anomaly at the event horizon(EH) of a Schwarzschild-type black hole. In this paper,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Qing-Quan Jiang

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

Dirac's Relativistic Wave Equation implies a measured electron velocity of $\pm c$ in any direction, in contradiction to Special Relativity and observation. It is shown in this article that this anomalous electron velocity reveals an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Basil S. Davis

We explore the method of Robinson and Wilczek for deriving the Hawking temperature of a black hole. In this method, the Hawking radiation restores general covariance in an effective theory of near-horizon physics which otherwise exhibits a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Saurya Das , Sean P. Robinson , Elias C. Vagenas

Motivated by the Robinson-Wilczek's recent viewpoint that Hawking radiation can be treated as a compensating energy momentum tensor flux required to cancel gravitational anomaly at the horizon of a Schwarzschild-type black hole, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Qing-Quan Jiang , Shuang-Qing Wu , Xu Cai

The Zitterbewegung (ZB) effect is investigated in graphene with spacially modulated potential near the original Dirac point (ODP) and extra Dirac points (EDPs). Our calculations show that to get the large ZB oscillations, the wave packet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Abdellatif Kamal , Ahmed Jellal

Although zitterbewegung -- the jittery motion of relativistic particles -- is known since 1930 and was predicted in solid state systems long ago, it has been directly measured so far only in so-called quantum simulators, i.e. quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Phillipp Reck , Cosimo Gorini , Klaus Richter

Hawking radiation is one essential property of quantum black hole. It results in the information loss paradox, and give important clue to the unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity. In the previous works, the boundary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-24 Jingbo Wang

We show that when an electron or photon propagates in a cylindrically symmetric waveguide, it experiences both a zitterbewegung effect and a spin-orbit interaction leading to identical propagation dynamics for both particles. Applying a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 C. C. Leary , Karl H. Smith

Zitterbewegung is a striking consequence of relativistic quantum mechanics which predicts that free Dirac electrons exhibit a rapid trembling motion even in the absence of external forces. The trembling motion of an electron results from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 I. Stepanov , M. Ersfeld , A. V. Poshakinskiy , M. Lepsa , E. L. Ivchenko , S. A. Tarasenko , B. Beschoten

Zitterbewegung of neutral relativistic particles propagating along a constant magnetic and/or electric field is studied. It is shown that spin Zitterbewegung, when superimposed on the Larmor precession frequency, leads to a beating pattern.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-01 Tihomir G. Tenev , Nikolay V. Vitanov

An analogy between the band structure of narrow gap semiconductors and the Dirac equation for relativistic electrons in vacuum is used to demonstrate that semiconductor electrons experience a Zitterbewegung (trembling motion). Its frequency…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Wlodek Zawadzki

It is argued that Hawking radiation has indeed been measured and shown to posses a thermal spectrum, as predicted. This contention is based on three separate legs. The first is that the essential physics of the Hawking process for black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 W. G. Unruh

We show that atoms falling from outside through a cavity into a black hole (BH) emit acceleration radiation which to a distant observer looks much like Hawking BH radiation. In particular, we find the entropy of the acceleration radiation…