2007/08/27 by Zhiyong Wang, Wang, Zhi-Yong, Cai-Dong Xiong +1
Physics and Astronomy · Engineering · #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers #Crystallography and Radiation Phenomena
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0708.3519
In the paper, we show that there exists a close analogy between the behavior of de Broglie matter waves and that of electromagnetic waves inside a hollow waveguide, such that the guided photons can be treated as free massive particles subject to a relativistic quantum-mechanical equation. Inspired by the effective rest mass of guided photons and the zitterbewegung phenomenon of the Dirac electron, at variance with the well-known Higgs mechanism we present some different heuristic ideas on the origin of mass.