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We proceed with the construction of normalizable Dirac wave packets for treating chiral oscillations in the presence of an external magnetic field. Both chirality and helicity quantum numbers correspond to variables of fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Alex E. Bernardini

The paper discusses the chiral tunnelling of charge carriers through double barrier structure in twisted graphene bilayer. The theoretical analysis investigates the transmission probability for various system parameters under both symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 A. Bahlaoui , Y. Zahidi

The time evolution of a wave packet is a tool to detect topological phase transitions in two-dimensional Dirac materials, such as graphene and silicene. Here we extend the analysis to HgTe/CdTe quantum wells and study the evolution of their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 A. Mayorgas , M. Calixto , N. A. Cordero , E. Romera , O. Castaños

It is now well-established that photonic systems can exhibit topological energy bands; similar to their electronic counterparts, this leads to the formation of chiral edge modes which can be used to transmit light in a manner that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Vittorio Peano , Martin Houde , Florian Marquardt , Aashish A. Clerk

We study electrostatic quantum dot confinement for charge carriers in silicene. The confinement is formed by vertical electric field surrounding the quantum dot area. The resulting energy gap in the outside of the quantum dot traps the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 B. Szafran , D. Zebrowski , A. Mrenca-Kolasinska

The dynamics of Dirac-Weyl spin-polarized wavepackets driven by periodic electric field is considered for the electrons in a mesoscopic quantum dot formed at the edge of two-dimensional HgTe/CdTe topological insulator with Dirac-Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-12 D. V. Khomitsky , A. A. Chubanov , A. A. Konakov

Silicene is a monolayer of silicon atoms forming a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice, which shares almost every remarkable property with graphene. The low energy structure of silicene is described by Dirac electrons with relatively large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-06 Motohiko Ezawa

We seek the {\em immediate} description of chiral oscillations in terms of the trembling motion described by the velocity (Dirac) operator {\boldmath$\alpha$}. By taking into account the complete set of Dirac equation solutions which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-24 Alex E. Bernardini

We start with the silicene or germanene single-particle Hamiltonian in buckled 2D hexagonal lattices expressed in terms of Dirac matrices in the Weyl basis. The Hamiltonian of these systems comprises of the Dirac kinetic energy, a mass gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Partha Goswami

The application of a perpendicular electric field can drive silicene into a gapless state, characterized by two nearly fully spin-polarized Dirac cones owing to both relatively large spin-orbital interactions and inversion symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-30 Yan-Yang Zhang , Wei-Feng Tsai , Kai Chang , X. -T. An , G. -P. Zhang , X. -C. Xie , Shu-Shen Li

We address the time evolution of two- and three-dimensional nonrelativistic Gaussian wave packets in the presence of a weak external potential of arbitrary functional form. The focus of our study is the phenomenon of rotation of a Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Arseni Goussev

Scattering of electrons from chiral spin textures such as the skyrmions is an emerging research area due to its richness in topological quantum transport, which is significant for spintronic devices. We study the dynamical process of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Hareram Swain , Arijit Mandal , S. Satpathy , B. R. K. Nanda

Chirality induced by rolling a two-dimensional material into a spiral geometry reshapes its electronic band structure. In this work, we theoretically investigate the topological properties of carbon nanoscrolls under an axial magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-03 Tzu-Ching Hsu , Jhih-Shih You , Hsiu-Chuan Hsu , Ion Cosma Fulga

In this study, using the Dirac continuum model combined with the split-operator technique, we investigate the propagation dynamics of wave packets in graphene in the presence of circular potential barriers arranged in square and triangular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 G. M. Milibaeva , H. T. Yusupov , D. G. Berdiyorova , Y. Rakhimova , M. Yusupov , A. Chaves , Kh. Rakhimov

Topological non-trivial band structures are the core problem in the field of topological materials. In this paper, we investigate the topological band structure in a system with controllable Dirac points from the perspective of wave packet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Dan-Dan Liang , Xin Shen , Zhi Li

We show that a wide class of quantum systems with translational invariance can host dispersionless, soliton-like, wave packets. We focus on the setting where the effective, two-dimensional Hamiltonian acquires the form of the Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Vit Jakubsky , Matej Tusek

We consider a model of an electron in a crystal moving under the influence of an external electric field: Schr\"{o}dinger's equation with a potential which is the sum of a periodic function and a general smooth function. We identify two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Alexander B. Watson , Jianfeng Lu , Michael I. Weinstein

The existence of chiral edge states, corresponding to the nontrivial bulk-band topology characterized by a non-vanishing topological invariant, and the manipulation of topological transport via chiral edge states promise topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Muhammad Nadeem , Xiaolin Wang

Time evolution of radial wave packets built from the eigenstates of Dirac equation for a hydrogenic systems is considered. Radial wave packets are constructed from the states of different $n$ quantum number and the same lowest angular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Turek , P. Rozmej

We study the propagation of wavepackets along curved interfaces between topological, magnetic materials. Our Hamiltonian is a massive Dirac operator with a magnetic potential. We construct semiclassical wavepackets propagating along the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Guillaume Bal , Simon Becker , Alexis Drouot