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The transmission T and conductance G through one or multiple one-dimensional, delta-function barriers of two-dimensional fermions with a linear energy spectrum are studied. T and G are periodic functions of the strength P of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-23 M. Barbier , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

We report the plasmon dispersion characteristics of intrinsic and extrinsic armchair graphene nanoribbons of atomic width N = 5 using a p_z-orbital tight binding model with third-nearest-neighbor (3nn) coupling. The coupling parameters are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-24 David R. Andersen , Hassan Raza

At the interface between two massless Dirac models with opposite helicity a paradoxical situation arises: A transversally impinging electron can seemingly neither be transmitted nor reflected, due to the locking between spin and momentum.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-27 Leonid Gogin , Lorenzo Rossi , Fausto Rossi , Fabrizio Dolcini

The Schr\"odinger equation dictates that the propagation of nearly free electrons through a weak periodic potential results in the opening of band gaps near points of the reciprocal lattice known as Brillouin zone boundaries. However, in…

Coulomb drag between two unhybridized graphene sheets separated by a dielectric spacer has recently attracted considerable theoretical interest. We first review, for the sake of completeness, the main analytical results which have been…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-27 M. Carrega , T. Tudorovskiy , A. Principi , M. I. Katsnelson , Marco Polini

The low energy quasiparticle dispersion of various narrow gap and gapless semiconductors are respectively described by three dimensional massive and massless Dirac fermions. The three dimensional Dirac spinor structure admits a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-19 Pallab Goswami , Bitan Roy

We review the transmission of Dirac electrons through a potential barrier in the presence of circularly polarized light. A different type of transmission is demonstrated and explained. Perfect transmission for nearly head-on collision in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Bo Gao

Effect of spin-orbit scattering on quantum diffusive transport of two-dimensional massive Dirac fermions is studied by the diagrammatic technique. The quantum diffusion of massive Dirac fermions can be viewed as a singlet Cooperon in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-07 Wen-Yu Shan , Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

Discrete fermionic and bosonic models for hyperbolic lattices have attracted significant attention across a range of fields since the experimental realization of hyperbolic lattices in metamaterial platforms, sparking the development of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Ana Djordjević , Marija Dimitrijević Ćirić , Vladimir Juričić

Quantum transport close to a critical point is a fundamental, but enigmatic problem due to fluctuations, persisting at all length scales. We report the scaling of optical conductivity (OC) in the \emph{collisionless} regime ($\hbar \omega…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-01 Bitan Roy , Vladimir Juricic

In the context of the Einstein-Cartan-Dirac model, where the torsion of the space-time couples to the axial currents of the fermions, we study the effects of this quantum-gravitational interaction on a massless neutrino beam crossing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-21 M. Alimohammadi , A. shariati

Since particle such as molecule, atom and nucleus are composite particle, it is important to recognize that physics must be invariant for both the composite particle and its constituent particles, this requirement is called particle…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Y. Cui

An analytical formula is derived for particle and energy densities of fermions and bosons, and their ballistic momentum and energy currents for anisotropic energy dispersions in generalized dimensions. The formulation considerably…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Jashan Singhal , Debdeep Jena

We show that Dirac fermions moving in two spatial dimensions with a generalized dispersion $E\sim p^N$, subject to an external magnetic field and coupled to a complex scalar field carrying a vortex defect with winding number $Q$ acquire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-21 Chi-Ken Lu , Babak Seradjeh

The discrete Uehling-Uhlenbeck equations are solved to study the propagation of plane (sound) waves in a system of composite fermionic particles with hard-sphere interactions and the filling factor ($\nu$) being 1/2. The Uehling-Uhlenbeck…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kwang-Hua Chu

The Klein-Gordon and the Dirac equations with vector and scalar potentials are investigated under a more general condition, $V_{v}+V_{s}= \mathrm{constant}$. These intrinsically relativistic and isospectral problems are solved in a case of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Luis B. Castro , Antonio S. de Castro

A classical analysis suggests that an external magnetic field can cause trajectories of charge carriers on a superconducting domain wall or cosmic string to bend, thus expelling charge carriers with energy above the mass threshold into the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Francesc Ferrer , Harsh Mathur , Tanmay Vachaspati , Glenn D. Starkman

The Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations are considered in a semi-infinite lab ($x > 0$) in the presence of background metrics $ds^2 =u^2(x) \eta_{\mu\nu} dx^\mu dx^\nu$ and $ds^2=-dt^2+u^2(x)\eta_{ij}dx^i dx^j$ with $u(x)=e^{\pm gx}$. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Alimohammadi , A. A. Baghjary

This paper presents a relativistic symmetrical interpretation of the Dirac equation in 1+1 dimensions which predicts no zitterbewegung for a free spin-1/2 particle. This could resolve the longstanding puzzle of zitterbewegung in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Michael B. Heaney

Using the method of finite differences a scheme is proposed to solve exactly the Klein-Gordon and Dirac free field equations, in a (1+1)-dimensional lattice. The hamiltonian of the Dirac field is translational invariant, hermitian, avoids…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Lorente