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Photonic zitterbewegung and its interpretation |
| Wang Zhi-Yong(王智勇)†, Xiong Cai-Dong(熊彩东), Qiu Qi(邱琪), and Liao-Yun(廖云) |
| School of Optoelectronic Information, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China |
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Abstract In terms of the volume-integrated Poynting vector, we present a quantum field-theory investigation of the zitterbewegung (ZB) of photons, and show that this ZB occurs only in the presence of virtual longitudinal and scalar photons. To present a heuristic explanation for such a ZB, by assuming that the space time is sufficiently close to the flat Minkowski space, we show that the gravitational interaction can result in the ZB of photons.
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Received: 28 June 2011
Revised: 10 August 2011
Accepted manuscript online:
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PACS:
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03.65.Pm
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(Relativistic wave equations)
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03.70.+k
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(Theory of quantized fields)
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| Fund: Project supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. ZYGX2010X013). |
Corresponding Authors:
Wang Zhi-Yong,zywang@uestc.edu.cn
E-mail: zywang@uestc.edu.cn
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Cite this article:
Wang Zhi-Yong(王智勇), Xiong Cai-Dong(熊彩东), Qiu Qi(邱琪), and Liao-Yun(廖云) Photonic zitterbewegung and its interpretation 2012 Chin. Phys. B 21 020302
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