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Coherent states in magnetized anisotropic 2D Dirac materials

Quantum Physics 2020-02-25 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In this work, we construct coherent states for electrons in anisotropic 2D Dirac materials immersed in a uniform magnetic field perpendicularly oriented to the sample. In order to describe the bidimensional effects on electron dynamics in a semiclassical approach, we adopt the symmetric gauge vector potential to describe the external magnetic field through a vector potential. By solving a Dirac-like equation with an anisotropic Fermi velocity, we identify two sets of scalar ladder operators that allow us to define generalized annihilation operators, which are generators of either the Heisenberg-Weyl or su(1,1) algebra. We construct both bidimensional and su(1,1) coherent states as eigenstates of such annihilation operators with complex eigenvalues. In order to illustrate the effects of the anisotropy on these states, we obtain their probability density and mean energy value. Depending upon the anisotropy, expressed by the ration between the Fermi velocities along the xx- and yy-axes, the shape of the probability density is modified on the xyxy-plane with respect to the isotropic case and according to the classical dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.1907.06551,
  title  = {Coherent states in magnetized anisotropic 2D Dirac materials},
  author = {Erik Díaz-Bautista and Maurice Oliva-Leyva and Yajaira Concha-Sánchez and Alfredo Raya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.06551},
  year   = {2020}
}

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25 pages, 9 figures

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