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Traditionally, the zitterbewegung (ZB) of the Dirac electron has just been studied at the level of quantum mechanics. Seeing that the fact that an old interest in ZB has recently been rekindled by the investigations on spintronic, graphene,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-14 Zhi-Yong Wang , Cai-Dong Xiong

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

Zitterbewegung of a Dirac electron is an oscillation between positive and negative energy states, and is thus distinct from the analogous phenomena exhibited by spin half charged particles in electric and magnetic fields. Quantum field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 Basil S. Davis

We present here a field theory of the spinning electron, by writing down a new equation for the 4-velocity field v^mu (different from that of Dirac theory), which allows a classically intelligible description of the electron. Moreover, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Giovanni Salesi , Erasmo Recami

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

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

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 highly successful Dirac equation can predict peculiar effects such as Klein tunneling and the "Zitterbewegung" (German for "trembling motion") of electrons. From the time it was first identified by Erwin Schrodinger, Zitterbewegung (ZB)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 Yu Iwasaki , Yoshiaki Hashimoto , Taketomo Nakamura , Shingo Katsumoto

Dirac's Relativistic Wave Equation implies a measured electron velocity of $\pm c$ in any direction, in contradiction to Special Relativity and observation. It is shown in this article that this anomalous electron velocity reveals an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Basil S. Davis

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 demonstrate both classically and quantum mechanically that the Zitterbewegung (ZB, the trembling motion) of electrons in crystalline solids is nothing else, but oscillations of velocity assuring the energy conservation when the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-11 Wlodek Zawadzki , Tomasz M. Rusin

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

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

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 is a striking consequence of relativistic quantum mechanics which predicts that free Dirac electrons exhibit a rapid trembling motion even in the absence of external forces. The trembling motion of an electron results from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 I. Stepanov , M. Ersfeld , A. V. Poshakinskiy , M. Lepsa , E. L. Ivchenko , S. A. Tarasenko , B. Beschoten

One of the most satisfactory pictures for spinning particles is the Barut-Zanghi (BZ) classical theory for the relativistic extended-like electron, that relates spin to zitterbewegung (zbw). The BZ motion equations constituted the starting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Salesi , Erasmo Recami

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

We show theoretically that nonrelativistic nearly-free electrons in solids should experience a trembling motion (Zitterbewegung, ZB) in absence of external fields, similarly to relativistic electrons in vacuum. The Zitterbewegung is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomasz M. Rusin Wlodek Zawadzki

The Dirac wave equation for the electron soon lead to the recognition of the Zitterbewegung. This was studied both by Schrodinger and Dirac. Later there were further elegant and sometimes dissenting insights, from different authors. We…

General Physics · Physics 2009-02-18 Burra G. Sidharth

Zitterbewegung (ZB, the trembling motion) of free relativistic electrons in a vacuum in the presence of an external magnetic field is calculated. It is shown that the motion of an electron wave packet has intraband frequency components,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 Tomasz. M. Rusin , Wlodek Zawadzki
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