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Solution of the Dirac equation predicts that when an electron with non-zero orbital angular momentum propagates in a cylindrically symmetric potential, its spin and orbital degrees of freedom interact, causing the electron's phase velocity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-23 C. C. Leary , D. Reeb , M. G. Raymer

Generalizations of the three main equations of quantum physics, namely, the Schr\"odinger, Klein-Gordon, and Dirac equations, are proposed. Nonlinear terms, characterized by exponents depending on an index $q$, are considered in such a way…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-28 Fernando D. Nobre , Marco Aurelio Rego-Monteiro , Constantino Tsallis

The stability of matter composed of electrons and static nuclei is investigated for a relativistic dynamics for the electrons given by a suitably projected Dirac operator and with Coulomb interactions. In addition there is an arbitrary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 Elliott H. Lieb , Heinz Siedentop , Jan Philip Solovej

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

In this article we present a detailed description of an electron in a uniform magnetic field evolving under the Schr\"odinger equation using ladder operators. Based on this analysis, we describe the same physical system using the Dirac…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-06 David Velasco Villamizar , Benjamin Russell

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

An equation, we call Dirac gamma-equation, is introduced with the help of the mathematical tools connected with the Clifford algebra. This equation can be considered as a generalization of the Dirac equation for the electron. Some features…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. G. Marchuk

Electron is modeled as a spherically symmetric charged perfect fluid distribution of matter. The existing model is extended assuming a matter source that is characterized by quadratic EoS in the context of general theory of relativity. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-04 Farook Rahaman , Mubasher Jamil , Kaushik Chakraborty

We propose a Hamiltonian for a nonrelativistic spin 1/2 \QTR{it}{free} particle (e.g. an electron) and find that it contains information of its internal degrees of freedom in the rest coordinate system. We comment on the dynamical symmetry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Bruce

In this note we generalized the Dirac non-linear electrodynamics, by introducing two potentials (namely, the vector potential A and the pseudo-vector potential gamma^5 B of the electromagnetic theory with charges and magnetic monopoles) and…

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

A classical model of the electron based on Maxwell's equations is presented in which the wave character is described by classical physics. Most properties follow from the description of a classical massless charge circulating with v\,=\,c.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 G. Poelz

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

In a previous work we have described the classical structure and analyzed the interaction of the classical Dirac particle with uniform and oscillating electric and magnetic fields. In the present paper we consider the interaction of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Juan Barandiaran , Martin Rivas

Lorentz proposed a classical model of electron in which electron was assumed to have only 'electromagnetic mass'. We modeled electron as charged anisotropic perfect fluid sphere admitting non static conformal symmetry. It is noticed that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-10-11 I. Radinschi , F. Rahaman , M. Kalam , K. Chakraborty

In the previous papers (quant-ph/0204037), (quant-ph/0204134) on the basis of Dirac's equation we have considered the electromagnetic interpretation of the quantum theory of electron. Here we continue the electron structure study. Since the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander G. Kyriakos

If the assumption that the center of mass(CM) and the center of charge(CC) of the electron are two different points was stated 100 years ago, our conceptual ideas about elementary particles would be different. This assumption is only…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2012-12-03 Martin Rivas

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

In our Comment we question the validity of the claim made by the authors of \cite{cc} that their solutions of the Dirac equation in an external {\em time-dependent} electromagnetic field describe beams of electrons. In every time-dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

In this work we produce a classical Lagrangian description of an elementary spinning particle which satisfies Dirac equation when quantized. We call this particle a classical Dirac particle. We analyze in detail the way we arrive to this…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Juan Barandiaran , Martin Rivas

One way of arriving at a quantum field theory of electrons and positrons is to take a classical theory of the Dirac field and then quantize. Starting with the standard classical field theory and quantizing in the most straightforward way…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-28 Charles T. Sebens