Spectrum of the Dirac Hamiltonian with the mass-hedgehog in arbitrary dimension
Abstract
It is shown that the square of the Dirac Hamiltonian with the isotropic mass-hedgehog potential in d dimensions is the number operator of fictitious bosons and fermions over d quantum states. This result allows one to obtain the complete spectrum and degeneracies of the Dirac Hamiltonian with the hedgehog mass configuration in any dimension. The result pertains to low-energy states in the core of a general superconducting or insulating vortex in graphene in two dimensions, and in the superconducting vortex at the topological - trivial insulator interface in three dimensions, for example. The spectrum in d=2 is also understood in terms of the underlying accidental SU(2) symmetry and the supersymmetry of the Hamiltonian.
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@article{arxiv.1010.0728,
title = {Spectrum of the Dirac Hamiltonian with the mass-hedgehog in arbitrary dimension},
author = {Igor F. Herbut and Chi-Ken Lu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.0728},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
6 pages: typos corrected, new section on accidental supersymmetry, added references, many comments, and a figure. Published version