Noncommutative geometry of Zitterbewegung

Michał Eckstein, Nicolas Franco, Tomasz Miller

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Drawing from the advanced mathematics of noncommutative geometry, we model a "classical" Dirac fermion propagating in a curved spacetime. We demonstrate that the inherent causal structure of the model encodes the possibility of Zitterbewegung - the "trembling motion" of the fermion. We recover the well-known frequency of Zitterbewegung as the highest possible speed of change in the fermion's "internal space." Furthermore, we show that the bound does not change in the presence of an external electromagnetic field and derive its explicit analogue when the mass parameter is promoted to a Yukawa field. We explain the universal character of the model and discuss a table-top experiment in the domain of quantum simulation to test its predictions.

langue originaleAnglais
Numéro d'article061701
journalPhysical Review D
Volume95
Numéro de publication6
Les DOIs
Etat de la publicationPublié - 23 mars 2017

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