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The worldline of a free electron is revealed by applying Dirac's velocity operator to its Dirac wave function whose space-time arguments are expressed in a proper time by a Lorentz transformation. This motion can be decomposed into two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 James L Beck

The zitterbewegung being proportional to $\sin(\epsilon t)$, it is depicted as the motion of electron from the positive energy state to that of the negative energy and vice versa in the neighbourhood of Dirac point. Since such transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-26 S. Arunagiri

The Klein-Gordon equation is used to calculate the Zitterbewegung (ZB, trembling motion) of spin-zero particles in absence of fields and in the presence of an external magnetic field. Both Hamiltonian and wave formalisms are employed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-11 Tomasz M. Rusin , Wlodek Zawadzki

We start from the spinning electron theory by Barut and Zanghi, which has been recently translated into the Clifford algebra language. We "complete" such a translation, first of all, by expressing in the Clifford formalism a particular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 W. A. Rodrigues , Jayme Vaz , Erasmo Recami , G. Salesi

This paper presents a relativistic symmetrical interpretation of the Dirac equation in 1+1 dimensions which predicts no zitterbewegung for a free spin-1/2 particle. This could resolve the longstanding puzzle of zitterbewegung in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Michael B. Heaney

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

It is shown that the electron Zitterbewegung, that is, the high-frequency microscopic oscillatory motion of electron about its centre of mass, originates a spatial distribution of charge. This allows the point-like electron behave like a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Brovetto , V. Maxia , M. Salis

Zitterbewegung (ZBW), the trembling motion predicted by the Dirac equation, has long remained unobservable in free electrons due to its sub-Compton scale. We elaborately construct a relativistic vortex electron wave packet as a coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Zhongze Guo , Bei Xu , Qiang Gu

We explore the dynamics of relativistic quantum waves in a potential step by using an exact solution to the Klein-Gordon equation with a point source initial condition. We show that in both the propagation, and Klein-tunneling regimes, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Fernando Nieto-Guadarrama , Jorge Villavicencio

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

Starting with the results obtained in a previous paper in which classical local U(1) gauge invariance in terms of the electromagnetic field strenghts instead of the usual formulation mediated by the four potential was introduced it is shown…

General Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 J. Buitrago

The effective low-energy excitations in a metallic or semimetallic crystalline system (i.e. electronic quasiparticles) always have a finite spatial extent. It is self-evident but virtually unexplored how the associated internal degrees of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-19 Tobias Holder

Starting from a statistical model of the electron, which explains spin and spin measurements in terms of a probability density distribution resulting from a rapidly changing angular momentum during an extended Zitterbewegung, a light-like…

General Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Arend Niehaus

The motion of a conducting electron in a quantum dot with one or several dislocations in the underlying crystal lattice is considered in the continuum picture, where dislocations are represented by torsion of space. The possible effects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Erik Aurell

The Dirac equation is reinterpreted as a constitutive equation for singularities in the electromagnetic vacuum, with the electron as a point singularity on a lightlike toroidal vortex. The diameter of the vortex is a Compton wavelength and…

General Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 David Hestenes

In previous papers, we have investigated the classical theory of Barut and Zanghi (BZ) for the electron spin [which interpreted the Zitterbewegung (zbw) motion as an internal motion along helical paths], and its "quantum" version, by using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-19 Erasmo Recami , Giovanni Salesi

In this work, we analytically derive a semi-classical equation of motion describing the zitterbewegung effects arising in the dynamics of wavepackets in non-Hermitian systems. In Hermitian non-relativistic quantum systems, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Yow-Ming Robin Hu , Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Eliezer Estrecho

Zitterbewegung of neutral relativistic particles propagating along a constant magnetic and/or electric field is studied. It is shown that spin Zitterbewegung, when superimposed on the Larmor precession frequency, leads to a beating pattern.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-01 Tihomir G. Tenev , Nikolay V. Vitanov

y formally diagonalizing with accuracy $\hbar$ the Hamiltonian of electrons in a crystal subject to electromagnetic perturbations, we resolve the debate on the Hamiltonian nature of semiclassical equations of motion with Berry-phase…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 Pierre Gosselin , Fehrat Ménas , Alain Bérard , Hervé Mohrbach

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