Sunday, May 19, 2013

1305.3372 (Parth Girdhar et al.)

Cosmological Zitterbewegung    [PDF]

Parth Girdhar, Archil Kobakhidze
We describe a new phenomenon of zitterbewegung of a free Dirac particle in cosmological spacetimes. Unlike the similar effect theorized by Schrodinger in 1930, the cosmological zitterbewegung is a real, physically attainable effect, which originates from the mixing of positive and negative frequency modes of a field operator in cosmological spacetimes. We briefly discuss the potential for observing this effect in laboratory experiments with trapped ions.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3372

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