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Zitterbewegung plays a major role in electron dynamics in solids, yet is not captured in conventional semiclassical treatments. Here, starting from the quantum Liouville equation, I identify a new Zitterbewegung velocity, which involves the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-18 Dimitrie Culcer

Temporal modulation of material parameters offers unprecedented control over wave dynamics, enabling phenomena beyond the capabilities of static systems. Here we introduce and analyze a robust mechanism for time rewinding, whereby a…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-17 Seulong Kim , Kihong Kim

In the early days of quantum mechanics Kapitza and Dirac predicted that matter waves would scatter off the optical intensity grating formed by two counter-propagating light waves [1]. This interaction, driven by the ponderomotive potential…

Dirac particle represents a fundamental constituent of our nature. Simulation of Dirac particle dynamics by a controllable quantum system using quantum walks will allow us to investigate the non-classical nature of dynamics in its discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Arindam Mallick , Sanjoy Mandal , Anirban Karan , C. M. Chandrashekar

In the frequency power spectral density, periodic oscillations appear as a Dirac comb at integer multiples of the frequency of the period. In weakly nonlinear systems or systems close to the primary instability threshold, the periodicity…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-27 Audun Theodorsen , Gregor Decristoforo , Odd Erik Garcia

We study quantum dynamics of a kicked relativistic spin-half particle in a one dimensional box. Time-dependence of the average kinetic energy and evolution of the wave packet are explored. Kicking potential is introduced as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-05 V. E. Eshniyazov , D. U. Matrasulov , J. R. Yusupov

The study of this paper demonstrates that electron has Dirac delta like internal momentum (u,p_{{\theta}}), going round in a circle of radius equal to half the reduced Compton wavelength of electron with tangential velocity c. The circular…

General Physics · Physics 2016-02-25 Malik Mohammad Asif , Salman Khan

Simulating quantum phenomena in extreme spacetimes in the laboratory represents a powerful approach to explore fundamental physics in the interplay of quantum field theory and general relativity. Here we propose to simulate the movement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-13 Qianqian Chen , Yaoming Chu , Jianming Cai

We construct the relativistic particle model without Grassmann variables which meets the following requirements. A) Canonical quantization of the model implies the Dirac equation. B) The variable which experiences {\it Zitterbewegung},…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 A. A. Deriglazov

We study the dynamics of an Airy wavepacket moving in a one-dimensional lattice potential. In contrast to the usual case of propagation in a continuum, for which such a wavepacket experiences a uniform acceleration, the lattice bounds its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 C. E. Creffield

Motivated by recent advances in the investigation of fluctuation-driven ratchets and flows in excited granular media, we have carried out experimental and simulational studies to explore the horizontal transport of granular particles in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Z. Farkas , P. Tegzes , A. Vukics , T. Vicsek

We demonstrate how the zitterbewegung charge oscillations can be detected through a charge conductance measurement in a three-terminal junction. By tuning the spin-orbit interaction strength or an external magnetic field the zitterbewegung…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-08 P. Brusheim , H. Q. Xu

Nonrelativistic formalism is developed, which allows describing systems with internal degrees of freedom in the scalar potential field $U$, which is a function both on relative coordinates and time, and on relative speed and accelerations.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-10-25 A. N. Tarakanov

We derive a general and simple expression for the time-dependence of the position operator of a multi-band Hamiltonian with arbitrary matrix elements depending only on the momentum of the quasi-particle. Our result shows that in such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-02 Gy. David , J. Cserti

The core concept of quantum simulation is the mapping of an inaccessible quantum system onto a controllable one by identifying analogous dynamics. We map the Dirac equation of relativistic quantum mechanics in 3+1 dimensions onto a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Elisha Svetitsky , Nadav Katz

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

Zitterbewegung of massless particles with an arbitrary spin is analyzed in various representations. Dynamics of the group velocity of a massless particle as a whole and of the corresponding radius vector is determined. This radius vector…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Alexander J. Silenko

Vibrated polar disks have been used experimentally to investigate collective motion of driven particles, where fully-ordered asymptotic regimes could not be reached. Here we present a model reproducing quantitatively the single, binary and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-19 C. A. Weber , T. Hanke , J. Deseigne , S. Léonard , O. Dauchot , E. Frey , H. Chaté

We uncover a remarkable quantum scattering phenomenon in two-dimensional Dirac material systems where the manifestations of both classically integrable and chaotic dynamics emerge simultaneously and are electrically controllable. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Hong-Ya Xu , Guang-Lei Wang , Liang Huang , Ying-Cheng Lai

We experimentally demonstrate coherent control of a quantum system, whose dynamics is chaotic in the classical limit. Interaction of diatomic molecules with a periodic sequence of ultrashort laser pulses leads to the dynamical localization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Martin Bitter , Valery Milner