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UFN, 1993 Volume 163, Number 5, Pages 115–118 (Mi ufn7164)

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METHODOLOGICAL NOTES

The Klein paradox and the zitterbewegung of an electron in a field with a constant scalar potential

S. V. Vonsovskiia, M. S. Svirskiib

a Institute of Metal Physics, Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg
b Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical Institute

Abstract: The zitterbewegung of an electron in the case of a field with a constant nonzero scalar potential is examined. The relationship of the average velocity of the particle and its momentum is discussed, and also the relation between the energy and the scalar potential. It is shown that taking this relationship into account enables one to resolve the well-known Klein paradox in Dirac's relativistic quantum theory of the electron.

PACS: 03.65.Pm, 02.30.Em

Received: October 26, 1992
Revised: February 3, 1993

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0163.199305e.0115


 English version:
Physics–Uspekhi, 1993, 36:5, 436–439


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