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The low energy excitations of graphene can be described by a massless Dirac equation in two spacial dimensions. Curved graphene is proposed to be described by coupling the Dirac equation to the corresponding curved space. This covariant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Maria A. H. Vozmediano , Fernando de Juan , Alberto Cortijo

We introduce a two-dimensional model of spin-1/2 Dirac fermions in graphene subjected to a highly tunable electric field, which exhibits super-Klein tunneling. The electric field can be continuously interpolated between two limiting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Alonso Contreras-Astorga , Francisco Correa , Luis Inzunza , Vit Jakubsky , Raul Valencia-Torres

Artificial atoms in graphene hosting a series of quasi-bound states can serve as an excellent platform to explore atomic collapse and become a basis to design novel graphene nanodevices. We theoretically study behaviors of massless Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Yu-Chen Zhuang , Yue Mao , Qing-Feng Sun

We optimize the first and second intrinsic hyperpolarizabilities for a 1D piecewise linear potential dressed with Dirac delta functions for $N$ non-interacting electrons. The optimized values fall rapidly for $N>1$, but approach constant…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Christopher J. Burke , Joseph Lesnefsky , Rolfe G. Petschek , Timothy J. Atherton

We examine the (2+1)-dimensional Dirac equation in a homogeneous magnetic field under the non-relativistic anti-Snyder model which is relevant to deformed special relativity (DSR) since it exhibits an intrinsic upper bound of the momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-09 Chee Leong Ching , Cheng Xun Yeo , Wei Khim Ng

The problem of confinement of fermions in 1+1 dimensions is approached with a linear potential in the Dirac equation by considering a mixing of Lorentz vector and scalar couplings. Analytical bound-states solutions are obtained when the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Antonio S. de Castro

We observe that the linear potential used as a leading approximation for describing color confinement in the instant form of dynamics corresponds to a quadratic confining potential in the front form of dynamics. In particular, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-22 Arkadiusz P. Trawiński , Stanisław D. Głazek , Stanley J. Brodsky , Guy F. de Téramond , Hans Günter Dosch

Solutions of the Dirac equation with spin and pseudospin symmetry for the scalar and vector trigonometric scarf potential in $D$-dimensions within the framework of an approximation scheme to the centrifugal barrier are obtained. The energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-30 B. J. Falaye , K. J. Oyewumi

A model in which a Dirac particle in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ is bound by $N\geqslant1$ spatially distributed zero-range potentials is presented. Interactions between the particle and the potentials are modeled by subjecting a particle's bispinor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Radosław Szmytkowski

The importance of the energy spectrum of bound states and their restrictions in quantum mechanics due to the different methods have been used for calculating and determining the limit of them. Comparison of Schrodinger-like equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-09 Zahra Bakhshi

We report the formation of bound states in the continuum for Dirac-like fermions in structures composed by a trilayer graphene flake connected to nanoribbon leads. The existence of this kind of localized states can be proved by combining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 N. Cortés , Leonor Chico , M. Pacheco , L. Rosales , P. A. Orellana

Boundary conditions for a massless Dirac fermion in 2+1 dimensions where the space is a half-plane are discussed in detail. It is argued that linear boundary conditions that leave the Hamiltonian Hermitian generically break $C$ $P$ and $T$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-26 Shovon Biswas , Gordon W. Semenoff

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

The spectrum of bound and scattering states of the one dimensional Dirac Hamiltonian describing fermions distorted by a static background built from two Dirac delta potentials is studied. A distinction will be made between mass-spike and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-30 Lucía Santamaría-Sanz

We study the problem of two Dirac particles interacting through non-relativistic potentials and confined to a two-dimensional sheet, which is the relevant case for graphene layers. The two-body problem cannot be mapped into that of a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-09 J. Sabio , F. Sols , F. Guinea

We study two-dimensional (2D) Dirac fermions in the presence of a periodic mass term alternating between positive and negative values along one direction. This scenario could be realized for a graphene monolayer or for the surface states of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 A. De Martino , L. Dell'Anna , L. Handt , A. Miserocchi , R. Egger

The dynamical conductivity of interacting multiband electronic systems derived in Ref.[1] is shown to be consistent with the general form of the Ward identity. Using the semiphenomenological form of this conductivity formula, we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-09 I. Kupcic

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

The Dirac equation with a U(1) vortex in the mass-term is solved in the presence of magnetic-like fields at zero energy. By drawing an analogy to classical mechanics, it is shown that the four-component Dirac equation in arbitrary magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-21 Igor F. Herbut

A single fermion is bound by a softcore central Coulomb potential V(r) = -v/(r^q + b^q)^(1/q), v>0, b>0, q \ge 1, in d>1 spatial dimensions. Envelope theory is used to construct analytic lower bounds for the discrete Dirac energy spectrum.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Richard L. Hall , Petr Zorin