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New interpretation to zitterbewegung

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In previous investigations on zitterbewegung(zbw) of electron, it is believed that the zbw results from some internal motion of electron. However, all the analyses are made at relativistic quantum mechanical level. In framework of quantum field theory (QFT), we find that the origin of zbw is different from previous conclusion. Especially, some new interesting conclusions are derived at this level: 1) the zbw arises from the rapid to-and-fro polarization of the vacuum in the range of the Compton wavelength (divided by 4π4\pi) of the electron, which offer the four-dimensional(4D) spin and intrinsic electromagnetic-moment tensor to the electron; 2) Any attempt that attributes spin (rather than double the spin) of the electron to some kind of orbital angular momentum would not be successful; 3) the macroscopic classical speed of the Dirac vacuum medium vanish in all inertial systems.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0110079,
  title  = {New interpretation to zitterbewegung},
  author = {Zhi-yong Wang and Ailin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0110079},
  year   = {2007}
}

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5 pages, no figures, revtex

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