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We study the dynamics of an electron wave packet in a strong constant crossed electromagnetic field with account for radiative corrections due to interaction of the electron with the vacuum fluctuations. We evaluate a wave packet composed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-19 I. Yu. Kostyukov , E. N. Nerush , A. A. Mironov , A. M. Fedotov

Graphene is a recently discovered carbon based material with unique physical properties. This is a monolayer of graphite, and the two-dimensional electrons and holes in it are described by the effective Dirac equation with a vanishing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Mikhailov , K. Ziegler

Wave packets in a system governed by a Hamiltonian with a generic nonlinear spectrum typically exhibit both full and fractional revivals. It is shown that the latter can be eliminated by inducing suitable geometric phases in the states, by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 S. Seshadri , S. Lakshmibala , V. Balakrishnan

Exact analytic solutions for an electron in graphene interacting with external complex magnetic fields are found. The eigenvalue problem for the non-hermitian Dirac-Weyl Hamiltonian leads to a pair of intertwined Schr{\"o}dinger equations,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 DJ Fernández , JD García-Muñoz

We present and analyze two mathematical models for the self consistent quantum transport of electrons in a graphene layer. We treat two situations. First, when the particles can move in all the plane $\RR^2$, the model takes the form of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-28 Raymond El Hajj , Florian Méhats

Graphene is an ideal material to study fundamental Coulomb- and phonon-induced carrier scattering processes. Its remarkable gapless and linear band structure opens up new carrier relaxation channels. In particular, Auger scattering bridging…

We develop a quantum landscape approach to characterize the long-time behavior of wave packet spreading in linear open quantum systems. Instead of treating diffusion, localization, and collapse of the wave packet as separate dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Kang Xu , Miao-Miao Yi , Zi-Hong Yan , C. P. Sun

Paraxial wave packets with discrete spatial, temporal, or spatiotemporal spectra are known to undergo periodic axial revivals on propagation in either free space or linear transparent, weakly dispersive media. Such spectacular revivals,…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-18 Yanlin Bai , Yangjian Cai , Chunhao Liang , Sergey A. Ponomarenko

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

Plasmon are collective oscillations of mobile electrons with dynamics controlled by their charge stiffness("Drude weight"). Using terahertz spacetime metrology, we probe Plasmon dynamics of mono- and bi-layer graphene. In both systems, the…

We study uniaxially strained graphene under the influence of non-uniform magnetic fields perpendicular to the material sample with a coordinate independent strain tensor. For that purpose, we solve the Dirac equation with anisotropic Fermi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-12 Yajaira Concha Sanchez , Adolfo Huet , Alfredo Raya , David Valenzuela

The dynamics of low energy electrons in general static strained graphene surface is modelled mathematically by the Dirac equation in curved space-time. In Cartesian coordinates, a parametrization of the surface can be straightforwardly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 F. Fillion-Gourdeau , E. Lorin , S. MacLean

We study the Dirac equation for quasiparticles in gapped graphene with two oppositely charged impurities by using the technique of linear combination of atomic orbitals and variational Galerkin--Kantorovich method. We show that for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-03 E. V. Gorbar , V. P. Gusynin , O. O. Sobol

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

Temporally and spectrally resolved dynamics of optically excited carriers in graphene has been intensively studied theoretically and experimentally, whereas carrier diffusion in space has attracted much less attention. Understanding the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-01 Roland Jago , Raül Perea-Causin , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

We present shape-preserving spatially accelerating electromagnetic wavepackets in curved space: wavepackets propagating along non-geodesic trajectories while recovering their structure periodically. These wavepackets are solutions to the…

We investigate the relativistic quantum dynamics of amassless electron in graphene in a two-dimensional noncommutative (NC) plane under a constant background magnetic field. To address the issue of gauge invariance, we employ an effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-30 Aslam Halder

The scattering of a Gaussian wavepacket in armchair and zigzag graphene edges is theoretically investigated by numerically solving the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation for the tight-binding model Hamiltonian. Our theory allows to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 D. R. da Costa , A. Chaves , G. A. Farias , L. Covaci , F. M. Peeters

In the presence of axial magnetic fields that can be realized in deliberately buckled monolayer graphene, quasi-relativistic Dirac fermions may find themselves in a variety of broken symmetry phases even for weak interactions. Through a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 Bitan Roy , Jay D. Sau

We show that the low-energy electronic structure of graphene under a one-dimensional inhomogeneous magnetic field can be mapped into that of graphene under an electric field or vice versa. As a direct application of this transformation, we…

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