Urdaneta Santos, I. (2023). The Zitterbewegung Electron Puzzle. Physics Essays, Vol 36, Pages 299-355.
This updated revision of semiclassical and relativistic descriptions for the electron go beyond the depiction of the electron as a structureless non-dimensional point like charge with momentum and position determined by a probabilistic interpretation of the wavefunction described in terms of an electronic density cloud. The common denominator of most of these approaches is the underlying notion that the vacuum fluctuations are real mechanical features of the vacuum, which therefore acquire some level of structure and organization that give rise to particle’s zitterbewegung – a light speed “trembling-along-the-way” electron motion-, among other features. The large number of correspondences between the models indicate that something very fundamental about the nature of the electron is being put forward by this study.
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