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We present an analytical study of one-dimensional semiconductor superlattices in external electric fields, which may be time-dependent. A number of general results for the (quasi)energies and eigenstates are derived. An equation of motion…

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In the present work, we investigate how structural defects in graphene can change its transport properties. In particular, we show that breaking of the sublattice symmetry in a graphene monolayer overcomes the Klein effect, leading to…

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We evaluate the electronic transmission and conductance in bilayer graphene through a finite number of potential barriers. Further, we evaluate the dispersion relation in a bilayer graphene superlattice with a periodic potential applied to…

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Transmission of the scalar field through the random medium, represented by the system of randomly distributed dielectric cylinders is calculated numerically. System is mapped to the problem of electronic transport in disordered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 P. Markos , C. M. Soukoulis

In this paper, we study wave transmission in a rotating fluid with multiple alternating convectively stable and unstable layers. We have discussed wave transmissions in two different circumstances: cases where the wave is propagative in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-21 Tao Cai , Cong Yu , Xing Wei

In the effective mass approximation, electronic property in graphene can be characterized by the relativistic Dirac equation. Within such a continuum model we investigate the electronic transport through graphene waveguides formed by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Haidong Li , Lin Wang , Zhihuan Lan , Yisong Zheng

We present an analytical solution for the tunneling process in a piecewise linear and quadratic potential which does not make use of the thin-wall approximation. A quadratic potential allows for smooth attachment of various slopes exiting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-24 Koushik Dutta , Pascal M. Vaudrevange , Alexander Westphal

We study the tunneling of Dirac fermions in graphene through a double barrier potential allowing the carriers to have an effective mass inside the barrier as generated by a lattice miss-match with the boron nitride substrate. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 Hocine Bahlouli , El Bouazzaoui Choubabi , Ahmed Jellal , Miloud Mekkaoui

Usually tunneling is established after imposing some matching conditions on the (time-independent) wave function and its first derivative at the boundaries of a barrier. Here an alternative scheme is proposed to determine tunneling and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 A. S. Sanz , S. Miret-Artes

This work establishes a firm relationship between classical nonlinear resonances and the phenomenon of dynamical tunneling. It is shown that the classical phase space with its hierarchy of resonance islands completely characterizes…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-07-31 Srihari Keshavamurthy

The transmission of wave packets through tunneling barriers is studied in detail by the method of quantum molecular dynamics. The distribution function of the times describing the arrival of a tunneling packet in front of and behind a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yu. Lozovik , A. Filinov

We study the temporal aspects of quantum tunneling as manifested in time-of-arrival experiments in which the detected particle tunnels through a potential barrier. In particular, we present a general method for constructing temporal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Charis Anastopoulos , Ntina Savvidou

The problem of inter-band tunneling in a semiconductor (Zener breakdown) in a nonstationary and homogeneous electric field is solved exactly. Using the exact analytical solution, the approximation based on classical trajectories is studied.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris Ivlev

We study electron transport in a strained graphene sheet subjected to a sequence of $N$ electrostatic and magnetic barriers. Employing a modified and improved transfer-matrix framework, we examine how the transmission and reflection…

A graphene superlattice is formed by a one-dimensional periodic potential and is characterized by the emergence of new Dirac points in the electronic structure. The group velocity of graphene's massless Dirac fermions at the new points is…

Quantum tunneling is a quantum phenomenon in which a microscopic object crosses through a potential barrier even if its energy cannot overcome the barrier. A general belief is that tunneling occurs only when the barrier width is comparable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Yuan-Xing Yang , Si-Yuan Bai , Jun-Hong An

We study the electronic states of graphene in piecewise constant potentials using the continuum Dirac equation appropriate at low energies, and a transfer matrix method. For superlattice potentials, we identify patterns of induced Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. P. Arovas , L. Brey , H. A. Fertig , Eun-Ah Kim , K. Ziegler

Scattering of a Gaussian wavepacket from rectangular potential barriers with increasing widths or heights is studied numerically. It is seen that during a certain time interval the time-evolving transmission probability increases compared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 H. Karami , S. V. Mousavi

We study the tunneling of a small ensemble of strongly repulsive bosons in a one-dimensional triple-well potential. The usual treatment within the single-band approximation suggests suppression of tunneling in the strong interaction regime.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-23 Lushuai Cao , Ioannis Brouzos , Sascha Zöllner , Peter Schmelcher

We study the transmission of Dirac fermions in graphene through a tilted barrier potential in the presence of a laser field of frequency $\omega$. By using Floquet theory, we solve the Dirac equation and then obtain the energy spectrum. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Rachid El Aitouni , Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal