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    "abstract": "Traditionally, the zitterbewegung (ZB) of the Dirac electron has just been\nstudied at the level of quantum mechanics. Seeing that the fact that an old\ninterest in ZB has recently been rekindled by the investigations on spintronic,\ngraphene, and superconducting systems, etc., in this paper we present a\nquantum-field-theory investigation on ZB and obtain the conclusion that, the ZB\nof an electron arises from the influence of virtual electron-positron pairs (or\nvacuum fluctuations) on the electron.",
    "arxiv_id": "quant-ph/0612090",
    "authors": [
      "Zhi-Yong Wang",
      "Cai-Dong Xiong"
    ],
    "categories": [
      "quant-ph"
    ],
    "journal_ref": "Chin. Phys. B 17 (11), 4170 (2008)",
    "title": "Zitterbewegung at the level of quantum field theory",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0612090"
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