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We investigate quantum tunneling of charge carriers through a periodic superlattice in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with rectangular potential barriers, including the presence of a defect, using a low-energy continuum model. Transmission…

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We introduce a two-dimensional model of spin-1/2 Dirac fermions in graphene subjected to a highly tunable electric field, which exhibits super-Klein tunneling. The electric field can be continuously interpolated between two limiting…

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We investigate potential scattering and tunneling dynamics of a particle wavepacket evolving according to the relativistic Schr\"odinger equation (also known as the Salpeter equation). The tunneling properties of the Salpeter equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 F. Daem , A. Matzkin

Recent interest in the studies of structured states obtained in relativistic electron beams has highlighted the use of two alternative descriptions, each based on a different wavefunction and the related space-time density. Although both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 F. Daem , A. Matzkin

The conductance and the Fano factor in a graphene sheet in the ballistic regime are calculated. The electrostatic potential in the sheet is modeled by a trapezoid barrier, which allows to use the exact solution of the Dirac equation in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. B. Sonin

We address the problem of barrier tunneling in the two-dimensional T_3 lattice (dice lattice). In particular we focus on the low-energy, long-wavelength approximation for the Hamiltonian of the system, where the lattice can be described by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-29 D. F. Urban , D. Bercioux , M. Wimmer , W. Häusler

We developed the theory of elastic electron tunneling through a potential barrier driven by a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field. It is demonstrated that the driven barrier can be considered as a stationary two-barrier potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 M. V. Boev , V. M. Kovalev , O. V. Kibis

The so-called Klein paradox - unimpeded penetration of relativistic particles through high and wide potential barriers - is one of the most exotic and counterintuitive consequences of quantum electrodynamics (QED). The phenomenon is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. I. Katsnelson , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim

The energy spectrum of graphene sheet with a single barrier structure having a time periodic oscillating height and subjected to magnetic field is analyzed. The corresponding transmission is studied as function of the obtained energy and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ahmed Jellal , Miloud Mekkaoui , El Bouazzaoui Choubabi , Hocine Bahlouli

Tunneling of microwaves through a smooth barrier in a transmission line is considered. In contrast to standard wave barriers, we study the case where the dielectric permittivity is positive, and the barrier is caused by the inhomogeneous…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. B. Shvartsburg , M. Marklund , G. Brodin , L. Stenflo

Reflection of two strongly interacting bosons with long-rage interaction hopping on a one-dimensional lattice scattered off by a potential step is theoretically investigated in the framework of the extended Hubbard model. The analysis shows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Longhi , G. Della Valle

We propose an analytical study of relativistic tunneling through opaque barriers. We obtain a closed formula for the phase time. This formula is in excellent agreement with the numerical simulations and corrects the standard formula…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Stefano De Leo , Vinicius Leonardi

We analyse a system in which, due to entanglement between the spin and spatial degrees of freedom, the reduced transmitted state has the shape of the freely propagating pulse translated in the complex co-ordinate plane. In the case an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 D. Sokolovski , R. Sala Mayato

We show, in the framework of a space-time resolved relativistic quantum field theory approach to tunneling, that microcausality precludes superluminal tunneling dynamics. More specifically in this work dealing with Dirac and Klein-Gordon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Mohammed Alkhateeb , Alex Matzkin

Time dependence for barrier penetration is considered in the phase space. An asymptotic phase-space propagator for nonrelativistic scattering on a one - dimensional barrier is constructed. The propagator has a form universal for various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. S. Marinov , Bilha Segev

Chiral tunneling through a harmonically driven potential barrier in graphene monolayer is considered in this work. Since the quasiparticles in this system are chiral in nature, tunneling is highly anisotropic, we determine the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-23 M. Ahsan Zeb , K. Sabeeh , M. Tahir

Quantum resonant tunneling behaviors of double-barrier structures on graphene are investigated under the tight-binding approximation. The Klein tunneling and resonant tunneling are demonstrated for the quasiparticles with energy close to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 Wei-Yin Deng , Rui Zhu , Yun-Chang Xiao , Wen-Ji Deng

The resonant transmission of a moving particle which interacts with an one-dimensional array of N delta-function potentials is investigated. A suitable transfer matrix formulation is used to obtain the particle transmission. We give the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-05 Guillermo Cordourier-Maruri , Virendra Gupta , Romeo de Coss

This article provides a pedagogical review on Klein tunneling in graphene, i.e. the peculiar tunneling properties of two-dimensional massless Dirac electrons. We consider two simple situations in detail: a massless Dirac electron incident…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-03 P. E. Allain , J. N. Fuchs

We study the transmission probability of Dirac fermions in graphene scattered by a triangular double barrier potential in the presence of an external magnetic field. Our system made of two triangular potential barrier regions separated by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-24 Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli