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Revisiting Zitterbewegung

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The Dirac wave equation for the electron soon lead to the recognition of the Zitterbewegung. This was studied both by Schrodinger and Dirac. Later there were further elegant and sometimes dissenting insights, from different authors. We briefly review some of these developments. However in more recent times with dark energy and noncommutative spacetime coming to centre stage, the earlier studies of Zitterbewegung become questionable.

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  3. B.M. Birla Science Centre, Adarsh Nagar, Hyderabad, 500 063, India

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Sidharth, B.G. Revisiting Zitterbewegung. Int J Theor Phys 48, 497–506 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-008-9825-8

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