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Delocalization of relativistic Dirac particles in disordered one-dimensional systems and its implementation with cold atoms

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-06-30 v2 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We study theoretically the localization of relativistic particles in disordered one-dimensional chains. It is found that the relativistic particles tend to dislocation in comparison with the non-relativistic particles with the same disorder strength. More intriguingly, we reveal that the massless Dirac particles are entirely delocalized for any energy due to the inherent chiral symmetry, leading to a well-known result that particles are always localized in one-dimensional system for arbitrary weak disorders to break down. Furthermore, we propose a feasible scheme to simulate and detect the delocalization feature of the Dirac particles with cold atoms..

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@article{arxiv.0810.0795,
  title  = {Delocalization of relativistic Dirac particles in disordered one-dimensional systems and its implementation with cold atoms},
  author = {Shi-Liang Zhu and Dan-Wei Zhang and Z. D. Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.0795},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

The version to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett.. many typos corrected; the suggested experiment was clarified;

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