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    Zitterbewegung, a German term meaning “trembling motion,” is a theoretical concept in quantum mechanics that describes the rapid oscillatory motion of particles such as electrons. It was first proposed by Erwin Schrödinger in 1930 as a consequence of the relativistic Dirac equation, which describes the behavior of fermions (particles with half-integer spin) like electrons. Properties…