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We develop an exactly solvable classical kinetic model of transport in Dirac materials accounting for strong electron-electron (e-e) and electron-hole (e-h) collisions. We use this model to track the evolution of graphene conductivity and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Dmitry Svintsov

In this paper, we study the massive Dirac equation with the presence of the Morse potential in polar coordinate. The Dirac Hamiltonian is written as two second-order differential equations in terms of two spinor wavefunctions. Since the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-27 Z. Zali , Alireza Amani , J. Sadeghi , B. Pourhassan

Recent studies show that periodic potentials can generate superlattice Dirac points at energies in graphene (is the Fermi velocity of graphene and G is the reciprocal superlattice vector). Here, we perform scanning tunneling microscopy and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-21 Hui Yan , Zhao-Dong Chu , Wei Yan , Mengxi Liu , Lan Meng , Mudan Yang , Yide Fan , Jiang Wang , Rui-Fen Dou , Yanfeng Zhang , Zhongfan Liu , Jia-Cai Nie , Lin He

In this paper, we study the Cauchy problem of 2d Dirac equation with Hartree type nonlinearity $c(|\cdot|^{-\gamma} * \langle \psi, \beta \psi\rangle)\beta\psi$ with $c\in \mathbb R\setminus\{0\} $, $0 < \gamma < 2$. Our aim is to show the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-30 Yonggeun Cho , Tohru Ozawa , Kiyeon Lee

Ab initio density functional theory (DFT) simulations were used to investigate an influence of electric field, parallel to single and multilayer graphene on its electron dispersion relations close to K point. It was shown that for both…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-09 Stanisław Krukowski , Jakub Sołtys , Jolanta Borysiuk , Jacek Piechota

We summarize a recent work on the subject title. The Dirac equation in a curved spacetime depends on a field of coefficients (essentially the Dirac matrices), for which a continuum of different choices are possible. We study the conditions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Mayeul Arminjon , Frank Reifler

In this pedagogical paper we review the discrete symmetries of the Dirac equation using elementary tools, but in a comparative order: the usual 3 + 1 dimensional case and the 2 + 1 dimensional case. Motivated by new applications of the 2d…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-25 Emerson Sadurní , Eladio Rivera-Mociños , Alfonso Rosado

The main objective of this work is to present a theoretical proposal for an implementation of the $(2 + 1)$-dimensional Dirac equation in classical gravitational and electromagnetic backgrounds in a two-dimensional waveguide array. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Christian Koke , Changsuk Noh , Dimitris G. Angelakis

In paper within the model with a maximal mass M and with use of anti de Sitter space is considered the Dirac equation properties for a fermion of mass m on the mass surface. The paper shows that free Hamiltonian and Hamiltonian with…

General Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 V. P. Neznamov

In order to use graphene for semiconductor applications, such as transistors with high on/off ratios, a band gap must be introduced into this otherwise semimetallic material. A promising method of achieving a band gap is by introducing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-18 M. R. Thomsen , S. J. Brun , T. G. Pedersen

We investigate the propagation of wave-packets on graphene in a perpendicular magnetic field and the appearance of collapses and revivals in the time-evolution of an initially localised wave-packet. The wave-packet evolution in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-22 Viktor Krueckl , Tobias Kramer

The present article discusses magnetic confinement of the Dirac excitations in graphene in presence of inhomogeneous magnetic fields. In the first case a magnetic field directed along the z axis whose magnitude is proportional to $1/r$ is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Pratim Roy , Tarun Kanti Ghosh , Kaushik Bhattacharya

The study of waveguide propagating modes is essential for achieving directional electronic transport in two-dimensional materials. Simultaneously, exploring potential gaps in these systems is crucial for developing devices akin to those…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 V. G. Ibarra-Sierra , E. J. Robles-Raygoza , J. C. Sandoval-Santana , R. Carrillo-Bastos

We study the transport properties of Dirac fermions through gapped graphene through a magnetic barrier irradiated by a laser field oscillating in time. We use Floquet theory and the solution of Weber's differential equation to determine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Rachid El Aitouni , Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Michael Schreiber

An unpaired gapless Dirac electron emergent at the surface of a strong topological insulator (STI) is protected by the bulk-surface correspondence and believed to be immune to backward scattering. It is less obvious, however, and yet to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-31 Yositake Takane , Ken-Ichiro Imura

We prove the nonlinear local stability of Dirac masses for a kinetic model of alignment of particles on the unit sphere, each point of the unit sphere representing a direction. A population concentrated in a Dirac mass then corresponds to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-25 Pierre Degond , Amic Frouvelle , Gaël Raoul

We derive the general solution to the coupled Einstein and Dirac field equations in static and hyperplane-symmetric spacetime of arbitrary dimension including a cosmological constant of either sign. As a result, only a massful Dirac field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 John Schliemann , Tim Sonnleitner

We are looking at a Dirac electron in the electromagnetic field of a plane monochrome polarized X-ray. It will be attempted to link the terms of a certain (joint) asymptotic expansion of the Heisenberg propagations of momentum- and…

General Physics · Physics 2018-01-08 H. O. Cordes

We will present brief overview on the electronic and transport properties of graphene nanoribbons focusing on the effect of edge shapes and impurity scattering. The low-energy electronic states of graphene have two non-equivalent massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 Katsunori Wakabayashi , Yositake Takane , Masayuki Yamamoto , Manfred Sigrist

The $(3 + 1)$-dimensional (generalized) Dirac equation is shown to have the same form as the equation expressing the condition that a given point lies on a given line in 3-dimensional projective space. The resulting Hamiltonian with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-16 Y. Jack Ng , H. van Dam