Comment on “Nondispersive analytical solutions to the Dirac equation”

Abstract

In our Comment we question the validity of the claim made by Campos and Cabrera [Phys. Rev. Res. 2, 013051 (2020)2643-156410.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013051] that their solutions of the Dirac equation in an external time-dependent electromagnetic field describe beams of electrons. In every time-dependent field, no matter how weak, which has an infinite time duration, there is 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 〈x〉 and 〈y〉 does not describe the electron trajectory but the motion of some combination of the electron and positron charge distributions with pathological properties (zitterbewegung).