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Using Dirac equation together with the Wigner distribution function,the trembling motion,known as Zitterbewegung effect,of moving electrons in quasi-one-dimensional relativistic quantum plasma is theoretically investigated.The relativistic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Safura Nematizadeh Juneghani , Babak Shokri

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

In this work we study the effects of collapse and revival as well as {\it Zitterbewegung} (ZB) phenomenon, for the relativistic electron wave packets, which are a superposition of the states with quantum numbers sharply peaked around some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 V. Ya. Demikhovskii , G. M. Maksimova , A. A. Perov , A. V. Telezhnikov

The split-operator technique for wave packet propagation in quantum systems is expanded here to the case of propagating wave functions describing Schr\"odinger particles, namely, charge carriers in semiconductor nanostructures within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 Andrey Chaves , G. A. Farias , F. M. Peeters , R. Ferreira

In this paper, we report results for the wave packet dynamics in a class of quasiperiodic chains consisting of two types of weakly coupled clusters. The dynamics are studied by means of the return probability and the mean square…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-29 Stefanie Thiem , Michael Schreiber , Uwe Grimm

A semiclassical theory of spin dynamics and transport is formulated using the Dirac electron model. This is done by constructing a wavepacket from the positive-energy electron band, and studying its structure and center of mass motion. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 Chih-Piao Chuu , Ming-Che Chang , Qian Niu

A Neumann problem for a wave equation perturbed by viscous terms with small parameters is considered. The interaction of waves with the diffusion effects caused by a higher-order derivative with small coefficient {\epsilon}, is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Monica De Angelis

In this paper a coherent superposition of angular momentum states created by absorption of polarized light by molecules is analyzed. Attention is paid to the time evolution of wave packets representing spatial orientation of internuclear…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Auzinsh

Dirac neutrino masses require two distinct neutral Weyl spinors per generation, with a special arrangement of masses and interactions with charged leptons. Once this arrangement is perturbed, lepton number is no longer conserved and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-16 G. Anamiati , R. M. Fonseca , M. Hirsch

We derive a general upper bound on the spreading rate of wavepackets in the framework of Schr\"odinger time evolution. Our result consists of showing that a portion of the wavepacket cannot escape outside a ball whose size grows dynamically…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. Killip , A. Kiselev , Y. Last

Closed-form, normalizable solutions of Dirac's equation propagating within a semi-infinite cylindrical waveguide are obtained in terms of ordinary and modified Bessel functions. These relativistic wave packets induce quantum backflow on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Siddhant Das

When particles move at a constant speed and have the tendency to align their directions of motion, ordered large scale movement can emerge despite significant levels of noise. Many variants of this model of self-propelled particles have…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 Matthias Meschede , Oskar Hallatschek

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

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

In neutrino physics, it is sometimes assumed that all wave packets must transform covariantly as Lorentz vectors. We show in a simple example that even if the initial conditions of a wave packet are covariant, then evolution in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-14 Emilio Ciuffoli , Jarah Evslin , Hosam Mohammed

We describe main ideas of method of many-particle quantum hydrodynamics allows to derive equations for description of quantum plasma evolution. We also present definitions of collective quantum variables suitable for quantum plasmas. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 P. A. Andreev , L. S. Kuz'menkov

In this paper, we investigate the motion of a set of charged particles acted upon by a growing electrostatic wave, in the limit when the initial wave amplitude is vanishingly small and when all the particles have the same initial action,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Didier Benisti , Laurent Gremillet

A lattice of particles with dipolar magnetic moments is considered under the presence of quadratic Zeeman effect. Two types of this effect are taken into account, the effect due to an external nonresonant magnetic field and the effect…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-01 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

The properties of quantum mechanics with a discrete phase space are studied. The minimum uncertainty states are found, and these states become the Gaussian wave packets in the continuum limit. With a suitably chosen Hamiltonian that gives…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Jang Young Bang , Micheal S Berger

Space-time wave packets can propagate invariantly in free space with arbitrary group velocity thanks to the spatio-temporal correlation. Here it is proved that the space-time wave packets are stable in dispersive media as well and free from…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-27 Hao He , Cheng Guo , Meng Xiao