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Comment on "Nondispersive analytical solutions to the Dirac equation"

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07615v3
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 15:18:44 GMT
Title: Comment on "Nondispersive analytical solutions to the Dirac equation"
Authors: Iwo Bialynicki-Birula and Zofia Bialynicka-Birula
Abstract summary: We question the validity of the claim made by the authors of citecc that their solutions of the Dirac equation in an external em time-dependent electromagnetic field describe beams of electrons.
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License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Abstract: In our Comment we question the validity of the claim made by the authors of \cite{cc} that their solutions of the Dirac equation in an external {\em time-dependent} electromagnetic field describe beams of electrons. In every time-dependent field, no matter how weak, which has {\em infinite} time duration, there is a continuous electron-positron pair creation and annihilation. Without the proper accounting for these processes, the mathematical solutions of the Dirac equation are not directly applicable to realistic physical situations. In particular, the time evolution of the average values $\langle x\rangle$ and $\langle y\rangle$ does not describe the electron trajectory but the motion of some combination of the electron and positron charge distributions with pathological properties (zitterbewegung).

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