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Non-Commutativity effects in the Dirac equation in crossed electric and magnetic fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-09-26 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

In this paper we present exact solutions of the Dirac equation on the non-commutative plane in the presence of crossed electric and magnetic fields. In the standard commutative plane such a system is known to exhibit contraction of Landau levels when the electric field approaches a critical value. In the present case we find exact solutions in terms of the non-commutative parameters η\eta (momentum non-commutativity) and θ\theta (coordinate non-commutativity) and provide an explicit expression for the Landau levels. We show that non-commutativity preserves the collapse of the spectrum. We provide a dual description of the system: (i) one in which at a given electric field the magnetic field is varied and the other (ii) in which at a given magnetic field the electric field is varied. In the former case we find that momentum non-commutativity (η\eta) splits the critical magnetic field into two critical fields while coordinates non-commutativity (θ\theta) gives rise to two additional critical points not at all present in the commutative scenario.

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@article{arxiv.1807.09803,
  title  = {Non-Commutativity effects in the Dirac equation in crossed electric and magnetic fields},
  author = {D. Nath and M. Presilla and O. Panella and P. Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.09803},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

6 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication by EuroPhysics Letters (EPL)