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We discuss the low-energy dynamics of massless Dirac fermions interacting with a propagating, relativistic photon in 2+1 spacetime dimensions, when we turn on a uniform magnetic field. This problem can be solved when the magnetic field is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-06 Thomas T. Dumitrescu , Juan Maldacena

We present a formalism to calculate the orbital magnetization of interacting Dirac fermions under a magnetic field. In this approach, the divergence difficulty is overcome with a special limit of the derivative of the thermodynamic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-05 Xin-Zhong Yan , C. S. Ting

In this article we discuss generalized harmonic confinement of massless Dirac fermions in (2+1) dimensions using smooth finite magnetic fields. It is shown that these types of magnetic fields lead to conditional confinement, that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Dai-Nam Le , Van-Hoang Le , Pinaki Roy

Due to Klein tunneling, electrostatic potentials are unable to confine Dirac electrons. We show that it is possible to confine massless Dirac fermions in a monolayer graphene sheet by inhomogeneous magnetic fields. This allows one to design…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. De Martino , L. Dell'Anna , R. Egger

We calculate the spectrum of massive Dirac fermions in graphene in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field modeled by a step function. We find an analytical universal relation between the bandwidths and the propagating velocities of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 L. Dell'Anna , A. Alidoust Ghatar , D. Jahani

We analyse the energy spectra of Dirac fermions in the presence of rotation and magnetic field. We find that the Landau degeneracy is resolved by rotation. A drastic change in the energy dispersion relation leads to the "rotational magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-01 Hao-Lei Chen , Kenji Fukushima , Xu-Guang Huang , Kazuya Mameda

The massless Dirac fermions and the ease to introduce spatial and magnetic confinement in graphene provide us unprecedented opportunity to explore confined relativistic matter in this condensed-matter system. Here we report the interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Ya-Ning Ren , Qiang Cheng , Chao Yan , Ke Lv , Mo-Han Zhang , Qing-Feng Sun , Lin He

This paper aims to theoretically analyze the behavior of Dirac fermions in tilted Dirac cone material, particularly those that have diffused a barrier potential.Our results show that the degree of tilt in the y-direction can lead to…

This work is a continuation of our recent study of non-relativistic charged particles, confined to a sphere enclosing a magnetic dipole at its center. In this sequel, we extend our computations in two significant ways. The first is to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 Jeff Murugan , Jonathan P. Shock , Ruach Pillay Slayen

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 the problem of Dirac fermion confinement in graphene in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field B. We show, analytically and numerically, that confinement leads to anomalies in the electronic spectrum and to a magnetic field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 N. M. R. Peres , A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea

In the variational framework, we study the electronic energy spectrum of massless Dirac fermions of graphene subjected to one-dimensional oscillating magnetic and electrostatic fields centered around a constant uniform static magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 B. S. Kandemir , A. Mogulkoc

We study quantum transport and scattering of massless Dirac fermions by spatially localized static magnetic fields. The employed model describes in a unified manner the effects of orbital magnetic fields, Zeeman and exchange fields in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Zazunov , A. Kundu , A. Hütten , R. Egger

We perform a symmetry analysis of a 2D electron system in HgTe/HgCdTe quantum wells in the situation when the chemical potential is outside of the gap, so that the bulk of the quantum well is conducting. In order to investigate quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-10 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

We present a theory of the emission spectrum of magnetoexcitons interacting with a $\nu = 1$ quantum Hall state of massive Dirac fermions in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides in high magnetic fields. Using an ab initio-parametrized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Katarzyna Sadecka , Marek Korkusinski , Ludmiła Szulakowska , Paweł Hawrylak

It is highly desirable to integrate graphene into existing semiconductor technology, where the combined system is thermodynamically stable yet maintain a Dirac cone at the Fermi level. Firstprinciples calculations reveal that a certain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-16 Yuanchang Li , Pengcheng Chen , Gang Zhou , Jia Li , Jian Wu , Bing-Lin Gu , S. B. Zhang , Wenhui Duan

We study the confinement of Dirac fermions in armchair graphene nanoribbons by means of a quantum-dot-type electrostatic potential. With the use of specific projection operators, we find exact solutions for some bound states that satisfy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Vit Jakubsky , Sengul Kuru , Javier Negro

We studied the transport properties of electrons in graphene as they are scattered by a double barrier potential in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field. We computed the transmission coefficient and Goos-H\"anchen like shifts for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

The intertwining technique has been widely used to study the Schr\"odinger equation and to generate new Hamiltonians with known spectra. This technique can be adapted to find the bound states of certain Dirac Hamiltonians. In this paper the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-30 Alonso Contreras-Astorga , David J. Fernández C. , Javier Negro

We investigate some properties of a system of Dirac fermions in 2+1 dimensions, with a space dependent mass having domain wall like defects.These defects are defined by the loci of the points where the mass changes sign. In general, they…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 C. D. Fosco , A. Lopez