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In this work we investigate the confining properties of charged particles of a Dirac material in the plane subject to an electrostatic potential well, that is, in an electric quantum dot. Our study focuses on the effect of mass and angular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 S. Kuru , J. Negro , L. M. Nieto , L. Sourrouille

We study the two-dimensional massless Dirac equation for a potential that is allowed to depend on the energy and on one of the spatial variables. After determining a modified orthogonality relation and norm for such systems, we present an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 A. Schulze-Halberg , P. Roy

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 consider the problem of confining the famously elusive Dirac-like quasiparticles, as found in some recently discovered low-dimensional systems. After briefly surveying the existing theoretical proposals for creating bound states in Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

Searching for new states of matter and unusual quasiparticles in emerging materials and especially low-dimensional systems is one of the major trends in contemporary condensed matter physics. Dirac materials, which host quasiparticles which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-13 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

In Westminster Abbey, in a nave near to Newton's monument, lies a memorial stone to Paul Dirac. The inscription on the stone includes the relativistic wave equation for an electron: the Dirac equation. At the turn of the 21st century, it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

Dirac particles have been notoriously difficult to confine. Implementing a curved space Dirac equation solver based on the quantum Lattice Boltzmann method, we show that curvature in a 2-D space can confine a portion of a charged, mass-less…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Kyriakos Flouris , Miller Mendoza Jimenez , Jens-Daniel Debus , Hans J. Herrmann

Analytic solutions of the quantum relativistic two-body problem are obtained for an interaction potential modeled as a one-dimensional smooth square well. Both stationary and moving pairs are considered and the limit of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-16 R. R. Hartmann , M. E. Portnoi

The stopping power and energy loss rate of charged particles traversing a two-dimensional Dirac plasma is investigated. The Dirac plasma considered here models a solid state system, recently realized graphene monolayer, where the conduction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-26 Aqsa Arshad , Kashif Sabeeh , M. Tahir

We study the self-interaction effects for the Dirac particle moving in an external field created by static charges in (1+1)-dimensions. Assuming that the total electric charge of the system vanishes, we show that the asymptotically linearly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Fuad M. Saradzhev

We reanalyze the problem of a 1D Dirac single particle colliding with the electrostatic potential step of height $V_{0}$ with a positive incoming energy that tends to the limit point of the so-called Klein energy zone, i.e., $E\rightarrow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Salvatore De Vincenzo

We discuss a geometric approach to confining a Dirac neutral particle with a permanent magnetic dipole moment interacting with external fields to a hard-wall confining potential in the Minkowski spacetime through noninertial effects. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-01 Knut Bakke

We study the behavior of massless Dirac particles in the vacuum C-metric spacetime, representing the nonlinear superposition of the Schwarzschild black hole solution and the Rindler flat spacetime associated with uniformly accelerated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-21 Donato Bini , Eduardo Bittencourt , Andrea Geralico

The electrons found in Dirac materials are notorious for being difficult to manipulate due to the Klein phenomenon and absence of backscattering. Here we investigate how spatial modulations of the Fermi velocity in two-dimensional Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-10 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

The superconducting proximity effect on two-dimensional massless Dirac electrons is usually analyzed using a simple model consisting of the Dirac Hamiltonian and an energy-independent pair potential. Although this conventional model is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yositake Takane , Ryo Ando

We investigate the one-dimensional Coulomb potential with application to a class of quasirelativistic systems, so-called Dirac-Weyl materials, described by matrix Hamiltonians. We obtain the exact solution of the shifted and truncated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-24 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

Scattering of a 2D Dirac electrons on a rectangular matrix potential barrier is considered using the formalism of spinor transfer matrices. It is shown, in particular, that in the absence of the mass term, the Klein tunneling is not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 Mikhail Erementchouk , Pinaki Mazumder , M. A. Khan , Michael N. Leuenberger

Quantum simulation is a powerful tool to study a variety of problems in physics, ranging from high-energy physics to condensed-matter physics. In this article, we review the recent theoretical and experimental progress in quantum simulation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-28 Dan-Wei Zhang , Zi-Dan Wang , Shi-Liang Zhu

We study the dynamics of ultracold atoms in tailored bichromatic optical lattices. By tuning the lattice parameters, one can readily engineer the band structure and realize a Dirac point, i.e. a true crossing of two Bloch bands. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-19 D. Witthaut , T. Salger , S. Kling , C. Grossert , M. Weitz

The prototypical exciton model of two interacting Dirac particles in graphene was analyzed in [1] and it was found that in one of the electron-hole scattering channels the total kinetic energy vanishes, resulting in a singular behaviour. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Lachlan L. Marnham , Andrey V. Shytov
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