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We develop the potential scattering of a spinor within the context of perturbation field theory. As an application, we reproduce, up to second order in the potential, the diffusion results for a potential barrier of quantum mechanics. An…

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We propose an experimental scheme to detect macroscopic Klein tunneling with spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). We show that a nonlinear Dirac equation with tunable parameters can be realized with such BECs. %in a simple…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-27 Dan-Wei Zhang , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Hui Yan , Z. D. Wang , Shi-Liang Zhu

We examine one-dimensional quantum scattering of a Dirac particle off relativistic potential barriers. With proper considerations of Dirac sea, existence of anomalous tunneling at zero incident-energy is revealed for a particular type of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-03 Pavel Hejcik , Taksu Cheon

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

The Dirac equation is a paradigmatic model that describes a range of intriguing properties of relativistic spin-1/2 particles, from the existence of antiparticles to Klein tunneling. However, the Dirac-like equations have found application…

Computational methods are indispensable to study the quantum dynamics of relativistic light-matter interactions in parameter regimes where analytical methods become inapplicable. We present numerical methods for solving the time-dependent…

After the short survey of the Klein Paradox in 3-dimensional relativistic equations, we present a detailed consideration of Dirac modified equation, which follows by one particle infinite overweighting in Salpeter Equation. It is shown,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Kevlishvili , A. Khelashvili , T. Nadareishvili

In this brief review, we survey the problem of electrostatic confinement of massless Dirac particles, via a number of exactly solvable one- and two-body models. By considering bound states at zero energy, we present a route to obtain truly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

Simulating quantum phenomena in extreme spacetimes in the laboratory represents a powerful approach to explore fundamental physics in the interplay of quantum field theory and general relativity. Here we propose to simulate the movement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-13 Qianqian Chen , Yaoming Chu , Jianming Cai

In this work, a spin $\frac 12$ relativistic particle described by a generalized potential containing both the Coulomb potential and a Lorentz scalar potential in Dirac equation is investigated in terms of the generalized ladder operators…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 E. S. Rodrigues , A. F. de Lima , R. de Lima Rodrigues

We present a general model allowing "quantum simulation" of one-dimensional Dirac models with 2- and 4-component spinors using ultracold atoms in driven 1D tilted optical latices. The resulting Dirac physics is illustrated by one of its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 Jean Claude Garreau , Véronique Zehnlé

The motion of a relativistic particle is linked to its spin by the Dirac equation. Remarkably, electrons in two-dimensional materials can mimic such Dirac particles but must always appear in pairs of opposite spin chirality. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Kenjiro K. Gomes , Wonhee Ko , Warren Mar , Yulin Chen , Zhi-Xun Shen , Hari C. Manoharan

Dirac particle represents a fundamental constituent of our nature. Simulation of Dirac particle dynamics by a controllable quantum system using quantum walks will allow us to investigate the non-classical nature of dynamics in its discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Arindam Mallick , Sanjoy Mandal , Anirban Karan , C. M. Chandrashekar

We obtain an exact solution of the Dirac equation in (2+1)-dimensions in the presence of a constant magnetic field normal to the plane together with a two-dimensional Dirac-oscillator potential coupling. The solution space consists of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Ahmed Jellal , Abdulaziz D. Alhaidari , Hocine Bahlouli

We study a non-Hermitian variant of the (2+1)-dimensional Dirac wave equation, which hosts a real energy spectrum with pairwise-orthogonal eigenstates. In the spatially uniform case, the Hamiltonian's non-Hermitian symmetries allow its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Yun Yong Terh , Rimi Banerjee , Haoran Xue , Y. D. Chong

We employ the tight-binding propagation method to study Klein tunneling and quantum interference in large graphene systems. With this efficient numerical scheme, we model the propagation of a wave packet through a potential barrier and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 R. Logemann , K. J. A. Reijnders , T. Tudorovskiy , M. I. Katsnelson , Shengjun Yuan

We consider electrostatically coupled quantum dots in topological insulators, otherwise confined and gapped by a magnetic texture. By numerically solving the (2+1) Dirac equation for the wave packet dynamics, we extract the energy spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Christian Ertler , Martin Raith , Jaroslav Fabian

Klein tunneling, the perfect transmission of normally incident Dirac electrons across a potential barrier, has been widely studied in graphene and explored to design switches, albeit indirectly. We show that Klein tunneling maybe easier to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Yunkun Xie , Yaohua Tan , Avik W. Ghosh

The Dirac equation is exactly solved for a pseudoscalar linear plus Coulomb-like potential in a two-dimensional world. This sort of potential gives rise to an effective quadratic plus inversely quadratic potential in a Sturm-Liouville…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Antonio S. de Castro

Presented is a quantum computing representation of Dirac particle dynamics. The approach employs an operator splitting method that is an analytically closed-form product decomposition of the unitary evolution operator. This allows the Dirac…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-16 Jeffrey Yepez