Time traps for electron-positron pairs

2020/05/22 by Iwo Białynicki‐Birula, Bialynicki-Birula, Iwo, Zofia Białynicka-Birula +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Quantum and electron transport phenomena

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2005.11036

openalex publication_date 2020/05/22 · openalex created_date 2020/05/29 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Analytical solutions of the Dirac equation in an external electromagnetic field are found such that according to the field-theoretic interpretation electron-positron pairs are trapped for a period of time. The naive one-particle interpretation of the Dirac wave function fails in this case completely. Simple electromagnetic field which produces this effect was undeniably concocted and may look artificial but the phenomenon of time traps seems real.

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