• DocumentCode
    732618
  • Title

    Prolonging the lifetime of relativistic particles by self-accelerating Dirac wavepackets

  • Author

    Kaminer, Ido ; Nemirovsky, Jonathan ; Rechtsman, Mikael ; Bekenstein, Rivka ; Segev, Mordechai

  • Author_Institution
    Phys. Dept., Solid-State Inst., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We show that shaping the wavepackets of Dirac particles can alter fundamental relativistic effects such as length contraction and time dilation. For example, shaping decaying particles as self-accelerating Dirac wavepackets extends their lifetime.
  • Keywords
    laser beams; optical pulse shaping; quantum electrodynamics; quantum optics; Dirac particles; fundamental relativistic effects; length contraction; lifetime; quantum electrodynamics; relativistic particles; self-accelerating Dirac wavepackets; shaping decaying particles; time dilation; wavepacket shaping;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183053