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In this article, we investigate the relativistic quantum dynamics of spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particles in (1+2)-dimensional G\"{u}rses space-time backgrounds, and analyze the effects on the eigenvalues. We solve the Dirac equation using the…

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We consider the dynamics of a spin-1/2 particle constrained to move in an arbitrary space curve with an external electric and magnetic field applied. With the aid of gauge theory, we successfully decouple the tangential and normal dynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Guo-Hua Liang , Yong-Long Wang , Meng-Yun Lai , Hao Zhao , Hong-Shi Zong , Hui Liu

This article is the second of a three-part series that derives a self-consistent theoretical framework of the electromechanics of arbitrarily curved lipid membranes. Existing continuum theories commonly treat lipid membranes as strictly…

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It is supposed the existence of a curved graphene sheet with the geometry of a Bour surface $B_{n}$, such as the catenoid (or helicoid), $B_{0}$, and the classical Enneper surface, $B_{2}$, among others. In particular, in this work, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Víctor A. González-Domínguez , Juan A Reyes-Nava , Pavel Castro-Villarreal

We have designed three-dimensional models of topological insulator thin films, showing a tunability of the odd number of Dirac cones on opposite surfaces driven by the atomic-scale geometry at the boundaries. This enables creation of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-03 David Soriano , Frank Ortmann , Stephan Roche

We propose a basic theory of nonrelativistic spinful electrons on curves and surfaces. In particular, we discuss the presence and effects of spin connections, which describe how spinors and vectors couple to the geometry of curves and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-25 Toru Kikuchi

The relativistic spinning particle model, proposed in [3,4], is analyzed in a Hamiltonian framework. The spin is simulated by extending the configuration space by introducing a light-like four vector degree of freedom. The model is heavily…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Sudipta Das , Subir Ghosh

The question how to Lorentz transform an N-particle wave function naturally leads to the concept of a so-called multi-time wave function, i.e. a map from (space-time)^N to a spin space. This concept was originally proposed by Dirac as the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 Matthias Lienert

By using Meng's idea in his generalization of the classical MICZ-Kepler problem, we obtained the equations of motion of a charged particle in the field of generalized Dirac monopole in odd dimensional Euclidean spaces. The main result is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Zhanqiang Bai

We investigate the semiclassical dynamics of massless Dirac fermions in 2+1 dimensions in the presence of external electromagnetic fields. By generalizing the $\alpha$ matrices to the spin-$S$ matrices and doing a certain scaling, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Moitri Maiti , R. Shankar

The spin 1 particle is treated in the presence of the Dirac magnetic monopole in the Minkowski and Lobachevsky spaces. Separating the variables in the frame of the matrix 10-component Duffin-Kemer-Petiau approach (wave equation) and making…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-20 O. V. Veko , K. V. Kazmerchuk , E. M. Ovsiyuk , V. V. Kisel , A. M. Ishkhanyan , V. M. Red'kov

Quasi-classical picture of motion of spin 1/2 massless particle in a curved spacetime is built on base of simple Lagrangian model. The one is constructed due to analogy with Lagrangian of massive spin 1/2 particle. Equations of motion and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-19 A. T. Muminov

The Dirac equation in curved space is used to study the optical transmittance of deformed graphene along a given direction. Our theoretical analysis of the available experimental data for the light transmittance suggests that the periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-10 O. Oliveira , A. J. Chaves , W. de Paula , T. Frederico

The kinetic equation used for the description of Dirac systems does not fully take into account two features that play an important role in the vicinity of the Dirac point: (i) the spin degree of freedom, in particular if the spin-flip…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-19 Oleksiy Kashuba , Björn Trauzettel , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We investigate numerically the spin properties of electrons in flakes made of materials described by the Dirac equation, at the presence of intrinsic spin-orbit-coupling(SOC). We show that electrons flowing along the borders of flakes via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Ioannis Kleftogiannis , Ilias Amanatidis

In the present article we show that the energy spectrum of the one-dimensional Dirac equation, in the presence of an attractive vectorial delta potential, exhibits a resonant behavior when one includes an asymptotically spatially vanishing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-22 Victor M. Villalba , Luis A. Gonzalez-Diaz

We present an introduction to the study of a relativistic particle moving under the influence of its own Frenet-Serret curvatures. With the aim of introducing the notation and conventions used in this paper, we first recall the action of a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-09-09 Guillermo Arreaga-Garcia , Julio Saucedo Morales

The semiclassical kinetic theory of Dirac particles in the presence of external electromagnetic fields and global rotation is established. To provide the Hamiltonian formulation of Dirac particles a symplectic two-form which is a matrix in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-02 O. F. Dayi , E. Kilincarslan , E. Yunt

The Dirac point and linear band structure in Graphene bestow it with remarkable electronic and optical properties, a subject of intense ongoing research. Explanations of high electronic mobility in graphene, often invoke the masslessness of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Chaitanya K. Ullal , Jian Shi , Ravishankar Sundararaman

Conventional microlasing of electromagnetic waves requires (1) a high $Q$ cavity and (2) a mechanism for directional emission. Previous theoretical and experimental work demonstrated that the two requirements can be met with deformed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Chen-Di Han , Cheng-Zhen Wang , Hong-Ya Xu , Danhong Huang , Ying-Cheng Lai