Published June 10, 2016
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Journal article
Observable Zitterbewegung in curved spacetimes
- 1. ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 (Australia)
- 2. Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, 00014 Helsinki (Finland)
Description
Zitterbewegung, as it was originally described by Schrödinger, is an unphysical, non-observable effect. We verify whether the effect can be observed in non-inertial reference frames/curved spacetimes, where the ambiguity in defining particle states results in a mixing of positive and negative frequency modes. We explicitly demonstrate that such a mixing is in fact necessary to obtain the correct classical value for a particle's velocity in a uniformly accelerated reference frame, whereas in cosmological spacetime a particle does indeed exhibit Zitterbewegung.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.03.049Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2016.03.049;
- arXiv
- arXiv:1508.06322v2;
- PII
- S0370-2693(16)30020-X;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters. Section B
- Journal Volume
- 757
- Journal Page Range
- p. 84-91
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- CODEN
- PYLBAJ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 48011695
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COSMOLOGY; PARTICLES; SPACE-TIME; VELOCITY; ZITTERBEWEGUNG
Optional Information
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2016 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.