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We develop a dynamic description of an effective Dirac theory in metamaterials, in which the wavefunction is modeled by the corresponding electric and magnetic field in the metamaterial. This electro-magnetic field can be probed in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 Sven Ahrens , Jun Jiang , Yong Sun , Shi-Yao Zhu

We describe a new phenomenon of zitterbewegung of a free Dirac particle in cosmological spacetimes. Unlike the similar effect theorized by Schrodinger in 1930, the cosmological zitterbewegung is a real, physically attainable effect, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Parth Girdhar , Archil Kobakhidze

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

Run-and-tumble particles, frequently considered today for modeling bacterial locomotion, naturally appear outside a biological context as well, e.g. for producing waves in the telegraph process. Here, we use a wave function to drive their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-17 Christian Maes , Kasper Meerts , Ward Struyve

New Dirac points appear when periodic potentials are applied to graphene, and there are many interesting effects near these new Dirac points. Here we investigate the $\textit{Zitterbewegung}$ effect of fermions described by a Gaussian wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-10 Jianli Luan , Shangyang Li , Tianxing Ma , Li-Gang Wang

Assuming dislocations could be meaningfully described by torsion, we propose here a scenario based on the role of time in the low-energy regime of two-dimensional Dirac materials, for which coupling of the fully antisymmetric component of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-04 Marcelo F. Ciappina , Alfredo Iorio , Pablo Pais , Adamantia Zampeli

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

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

The main concepts of the recently developed approach to singular problems of quantum mechanics are extended to the Dirac particle in the Coulomb field of a point-like nucleus with its charge Z>137. The reflection and transmission…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. E. Shabad

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

We prove that the classical Dirac equation in the presence of an external (nondynamical) electromagnetic field is a relativistically causal theory. As a corollary, we show that it is impossible to use quantum tunneling to transmit particles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Lorenzo Gavassino , Marcelo M. Disconzi

Based on the mathematics of noncommutative geometry, we model a 'classical' Dirac fermion propagating in a curved spacetime. We demonstrate that the inherent causal structure of the model encodes the possibility of Zitterbewegung - the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Michał Eckstein , Nicolas Franco , Tomasz Miller

We consider graphene superlattice miniband fermions probed by electronic interferometry in magneto-transport experiments. By decoding the observed Fabry-P\'erot interference patterns together with our corresponding quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 R. Kraft , M. -H. Liu , P. B. Selvasundaram , S. -C. Chen , R. Krupke , K. Richter , R. Danneau

It is shown, for the first time, that the zitterbewegung of photon can appear near the Dirac point in two-dimensional photonic crystal. The superiority of such a phenomenon for photons is that it can be found in different scaling structures…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiangdong Zhang

Starting from an engineered periodic optical structure formed by waveguide arrays comprised of two interleaved lattices, we simulate a deformed Dirac equation. We show that the system also simulate graphene nano ribbons under strain. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 M. R. Setare , P. Majari , C. Noh , Sh. Dehdashti

The quantum gravity effects of vacuum polarization of gravitons propagating in a curved spacetime cause the quantum vacuum to act as a dispersive medium with a refractive index. Due to this dispersive medium gravitons acquire superluminal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-11 J. W. Moffat

The pseudospin of Dirac electrons in graphene manifests itself in a peculiar momentum anisotropy for photo-excited electron-hole pairs. These interband excitations are in fact forbidden along the direction of the light polarization, and are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 S. Aeschlimann , R. Krause , M. Chávez-Cervantes , H. Bromberger , A. Al-Temimy , C. Coletti , A. Cavalleri , I. Gierz

The interaction of light with objects and media moving at relativistic and superluminal speeds enables unconventional phenomena such as Fresnel drag, Hawking radiation, and light amplification. Synthetic motion, facilitated by modulated…

It is shown that the transferring of light signal faster-than-c can take place exclusively as the instantaneous quantum tunneling. Its extent (space size of instanton) must be inversely relative to lack of energy till nearest stable or…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. Perel'man

We present quantum Lattice Boltzmann simulations of the Dirac equation for quantum-relativistic particles with random mass. By choosing zero-average random mass fluctuation, the simulations show evidence of localization and ultra-slow Sinai…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Silvia Palpacelli , Sauro Succi