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Our study reveals electron spin in a cavity as a stable circulating current density, characterized by a torus topology. This current density circulates concentrically beyond the cavity boundary, illustrating the concept of evanescent wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Ju Gao , Fang Shen

The particle-wave duality of the electron poses a principle question of whether the spin is a property of the particle or the wave. In this paper, the wave nature of the spin is studied for an electron inside a two-dimensional quantum well.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-05 Ju Gao

The wave spin of an electron can be fully characterized by the current density calculated from the exact four-spinor solution of the Dirac equation. In the excited states of the electron in a magnetic field-free quantum well, the current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Ju Gao , Fang Shen

We show the existence of an inherent property of evanescent electromagnetic waves: spin-momentum locking, where the direction of momentum fundamentally locks the polarization of the wave. We trace the ultimate origin of this phenomenon to…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-10 Todd Van Mechelen , Zubin Jacob

As a continuation of our earlier investigations into electron wave--spin~\citep{GaoJOPCO22,EntropyEvaSpin2024}, we analyze the electron spin and its qubit in a cavity by treating the electron as a physical wave obeying the Dirac equation.…

General Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Ju Gao , Fang Shen

It is substantiated that spin is a notion associated with the group of internal symmetry that is tightly connected with the geometrical structure of spacetime. The wave equation for the description of the particles with spin one half is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 I. B. Pestov

An evanescent wave is a non-propagating wave with an imaginary wave vector. In this study, we prove that these are solutions of the tachyon-like Klein Gordon equation, and that in the tunneling of ultrarelativistic half integer spin…

General Physics · Physics 2019-09-16 Luca Nanni

Polarization, spin, and helicity are important properties of electromagnetic waves. It is commonly believed that helicity is invariant under the Lorentz transformations. This is indeed so for plane waves and their localized superpositions.…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-08 Konstantin Y. Bliokh

A classical circularly polarized electromagnetic wave carries angular momentum, and represents the classical limit of a photon, which carries quantized spin. It is shown that a very similar picture of a circularly polarized coherent wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan M. Kadin

We describe the properties of evanescent gravitational waves (EGWs)---wave solutions of Einstein equations which decay exponentially in some direction while propagating in another. Evanescent waves are well-known in acoustics and optics and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-30 Sebastian Golat , Eugene A. Lim , Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño

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

Unveiling intrinsic spins of propagating waves usually offers people a fundamental understanding of the geometrical and topological properties of waves from classical to quantum aspects. A great variety of research has shown that transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Yang Long , Jie Ren , Hong Chen

We study the energy conversion laws of the macroscopic harmonic $LC $ oscillator, the electromagnetic wave (photon) and the hydrogen atom. As our analysis indicates that the energies of these apparently different systems obey exactly the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. Q. Huang

In this paper, we have given the symmetrical and antisymmetrical spin and space wave functions of three-electron, and further given the full total entanglement states for the three-electron, which are related to their space and spin wave…

We derive the modified Dirac equation for an electron undergos an influence of the standard model interaction with the nuclear matter. The exact solutions for this equation and the electron energy spectrum in matter are obtained. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Grigoriev , Sergey Shinkevich , Alexander Studenikin , Alexei Ternov , Ilya Trofimov

The Dirac equation is used to describe oblique spin-conserving and spin-flip reflections of relativistic electrons from a one-dimensional potential barrier in a vacuum. When an electron hits the barrier from an oblique direction, its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Wlodek Zawadzki , Pawel Pfeffer

We present the exact wave functions and energy levels of electron in a two-dimensional circular quantum dot in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The confinement is described by the realistic potential well of finite depth.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-17 V. V. Kudryashov

The general solution of the Dirac equation for quasi-two-dimensional electrons confined in an asymmetric quantum well, is found. The energy spectrum of such a system is exactly calculated using special unitary transformation and shown to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 A. A. Eremko , L. S. Brizhik , V. M. Loktev

We investigate the dynamics of spin-nonequilibrium electron systems in the hydrodynamic flow regime, when the normal scattering processes, which conserve the total quasi-momentum of the system of electrons and quasi-particles that interact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-17 R. N. Gurzhi , A. N. Kalinenko , A. I. Kopeliovich , P. V. Pyshkin , S. B. Rutkevich , A. V. Yanovsky , A. N. Yashin

This article compares treatments of the Stern-Gerlach experiment across different physical theories, building up to a novel analysis of electron spin measurement in the context of classical Dirac field theory. Modeling the electron as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Charles T. Sebens
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