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In a semiclassical context we investigate the Zitterbewegung of relativistic particles with spin 1/2 moving in external fields. It is shown that the analogue of Zitterbewegung for general observables can be removed to arbitrary order in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jens Bolte , Rainer Glaser

An optical analogue of Zitterbewegung (ZB), i.e. of the trembling motion of Dirac electrons caused by the interference between positive and negative energy states, is proposed for spatial beam propagation in binary waveguide arrays. In this…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Longhi

The Zitterbewegung effect in spin-orbit coupled spin-1 cold atoms is investigated in the presence of the Zeeman field and a harmonic trap. It is shown that the Zeeman field and the harmonic trap have significant effect on the Zitterbewegung…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-04-07 Yi-Cai Zhang , Song-Wei Song , Chao-Fei Liu , W. M. Liu

Observable effects due to trembling motion (Zitterbewegung, ZB) of charge carriers in bilayer graphene, monolayer graphene and carbon nanotubes are calculated. It is shown that, when the charge carriers are prepared in the form of gaussian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tomasz M. Rusin , Wlodek Zawadzki

The phenomenon of Zitterbewegung (ZB, trembling motion) of electrons is described in zigzag carbon nanotubes (CNT) excited by laser pulses. The tight binding approach is used for the band structure of CNT and the effect of light is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-25 Tomasz M. Rusin , Wlodek Zawadzki

In terms of a photon wave function corresponding to the (1, 0)+(0, 1) representation of the Lorentz group, the radiation and Coulomb fields within a source-free region can be described unitedly by a Lorentz-covariant Dirac-like equation. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-26 Zhi-Yong Wang , Cai-Dong Xiong , Qi Qiu

Starting from a gauge invariant Dirac Hamiltonian with noncommutativity of space sector in the presence of an external uniform magnetic field, the resulting Dirac equation has been solved for electrons and its corresponding zitterbewegung…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-24 Mehran Zahiri Abyaneh , Mehrdad Farhoudi

In this work we study the quantum and Klein-Gordon oscillators in non-commutative complex space. We show that the quantum oscillator in non-commutative complex space obeys an equation similar to the equation of motion of an electron with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-28 S. Zaim

In term of the volume-integrated Poynting vector, we present a quantum field-theory investigation on the zitterbewegung (ZB) of photons, and show that this ZB occurs only in the presence of virtual longitudinal and scalar photons. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Zhi-Yong Wang , Cai-Dong Xiong , Qi Qiu

The Hawking radiation can be viewed from very different perspectives, not all of which can be proved to be rigorously equivalent to one another. On the other hand, an old interest in the zitterbewegung (ZB) of the Dirac electron has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-03 Zhi-Yong Wang , Cai-Dong Xiong , Qi Qiu

Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations are the motion equations for relativistic particles with spin 0 (so-called scalar particles) and 1/2 (electron/positron) respectively. For a free particle, the Dirac equation is derived from the Klein-Gordon…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-16 Marie-Noëlle Célérier , Laurent Nottale

The Hamilton-Jacobi method is generalized, both, in classical and relativistic mechanics. The implications in quantum mechanics are considered in the case of Klein-Gordon equation. We find that the wave functions of Klein-Gordon theory can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Chavoya-Aceves

The Newtonian dynamics of particles in brane gravity is investigated. Due to the coupling of the particles' energy-momentum tensor to the tension of the brane, the particle is semi-confined and oscillates along the extra dimension. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-04 Shahram Jalalzadeh

In the Dirac theory for the motion of free relativistic electrons, highly oscillatory components appear in the time evolution of physical observables such as position, velocity, and spin angular momentum. This effect is known as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Winkler , U. Zülicke , Jens Bolte

The one-century-old Stern-Gerlach setup is paradigmatic for a quantum measurement. We visualize the electron trajectories following the Bohmian zig-zag dynamics. This dynamics was developed in order to deal with the fundamentally massless…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Simon Krekels , Christian Maes , Kasper Meerts , Ward Struyve

Superconducting systems such as those modeled by the Kitaev Hamiltonian are found to exhibit the Zitterbewegung (ZB) oscillations. Remarkably, the dispersion relation in one-dimensional Kitaev systems allows for wavepackets of arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Qi Zhang , Jiangbin Gong

The Klein-Gordon equation describes the wave-like behavior of spinless particles since it is Lorentz invariant. While it seemed initially ripe for explaining the electronic structure of the hydrogen atom, the lack of a unconditional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 P. -A. Gourdain

We give a systematic treatment of the quantum mechanics of a spin zero particle in a combined electromagnetic field and a weak gravitational field, which is produced by a slow moving matter source. The analysis is based on the Klein-Gordon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Ronald J. Adler , Pisin Chen

We study the $zitterbewegung$ of a heavy hole in presence of both cubic Rashba and cubic Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. On contrary to the electronic case, $zitterbewegung$ does not vanish for equal strength of Rashba and Dresselhaus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 Tutul Biswas , Sandip Chowdhury , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

A small dipole oscillator moving along a circular trajectory in zero-point electromagnetic field ( ZPF ) and with a polarization normal to the rotation plane, is considered. Temporal periodicity conditions are imposed on ZPF, associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 Yefim S. Levin