Relativistic electron localization and the lack of Zitterbewegung

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Krekora, P ^a   Su, Q ^a   Grobe, R ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRONS; GRAPH THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POSITRONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUANTUM THEORY; VACUUM;

CHARGE CONSERVATION; DIRAC OPERATORS; RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON LOCALIZATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 4344614439     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.043004     Document Type: Article

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