Photonic zitterbewegung and its interpretation

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/21/2/020302

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.

Keywords: zitterbewegung photons gravitational field

Received: 28 June 2011
Revised: 10 August 2011
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PACS:	03.65.Pm	(Relativistic wave equations)
	03.70.+k	(Theory of quantized fields)

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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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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