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Klein paradox between transmitted and reflected Dirac waves on Bour surfaces

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2022-07-13 v2 Materials Science Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

It is supposed the existence of a curved graphene sheet with the geometry of a Bour surface BnB_{n}, such as the catenoid (or helicoid), B0B_{0}, and the classical Enneper surface, B2B_{2}, among others. In particular, in this work, the propagation of the electronic degrees of freedom on these surfaces is studied based on the Dirac equation. As a consequence of the polar geometry of BnB_{n}, it is found that the geometry of the surface causes the Dirac fermions to move as if they would be subjected to an external potential coupled to a spin-orbit term. The geometry-induced potential is interpreted as a barrier potential, which is asymptotically zero. Furthermore, the behaviour of asymptotic Dirac states and scattering states are studied through the Lippmann-Schwinger formalism. It is found that for surfaces B0B_{0} and B1B_{1}, the total transmission phenomenon is found for sufficiently large values of energy, while for surfaces BnB_{n}, with n2n\geq 2, it is shown that there is an energy point EKE_{K} where Klein's paradox is realized, while for energy values EEKE\gg E_{K} it is found that the conductance of the hypothetical material is completely suppressed, G(E)0\mathcal{G}(E)\to 0.

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@article{arxiv.2207.04099,
  title  = {Klein paradox between transmitted and reflected Dirac waves on Bour surfaces},
  author = {Víctor A. González-Domínguez and Juan A Reyes-Nava and Pavel Castro-Villarreal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.04099},
  year   = {2022}
}

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31 pages, 9 figures

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