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Classical simulation of relativistic Zitterbewegung in photonic lattices.

F. Dreisow,M. Heinrich,4 Authors,A. Szameit

2010 · DOI: 10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.105.143902
Physical Review Letters · 176 Citations

TLDR

This work presents the first experimental realization of an optical analog for relativistic quantum mechanics by simulating the Zitterbewegung (trembling motion) of a free Dirac electron in an optical superlattice with photonic setting.