1. Department of Physics and Prairie Particle Physics Institute, University of Regina, Regina, Sask S4S 0A2, Canada;2. International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies, 89019 Vietri sul Mare (SA), Italy
Abstract:
Berry phases mix states of positive and negative energy in the propagation of fermions and bosons in external gravitational and electromagnetic fields and generate Zitterbewegung oscillations. The results are valid in any reference frame and to any order of approximation in the metric deviation.