Zitterbewegung of Bosons
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Abstract Zitterbewegung of massive and massless scalar bosons and a massive Proca (spin-1) boson is analyzed. The equations describing the evolution of the velocity and position of the scalar boson in the generalized Feshbach–Villars representation and the corresponding equations for the massive Proca particle in the Sakata–Taketani representation are equivalent to each other and to the well-known equations for the Dirac particle. However, Zitterbewegung does not appear in the Foldy–Wouthuysen representation. Since the position and velocity operators in the Foldy–Wouthuysen representation and their transforms to other representations are the quantum-mechanical counterparts of the corresponding classical variables, Zitterbewegung is not observable.
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This conclusion agrees with previous studies [3-5,9-14] for massive particles.
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Silenko, A. J. (2022) · Physical Review A · doi:10.1103/physreva.105.062211 · Cited by 11 · see citing works
“The final equations of motion of a free Proca particle are equivalent to the corresponding equations for the Dirac and scalar particles [4, 5]:”
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- Authors
- Silenko, A. J.
- Affiliations
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Silenko, A. J.
- ORCID
- Silenko, A. J.
- Venue
- Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters
- Publisher
- Pleiades Publishing Ltd
- Published
- 2020-03
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 116-119
- ISSN
- 1531-8567 (ISSN-L)
- 1547-4771
- OpenAlex
- W2994261032
- Cited by
- 12
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2024: 5 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 0.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
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- Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- BSU Digital Library (Belarusian State University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Mechanics and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Relativity and Gravitational Theory
- Keywords
- Zitterbewegung, scalar bosons, Foldy-Wouthuysen representation, Dirac equation, spin-1 bosons
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