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We study theoretically Anderson localization of two-dimensional massless pseudospin-1 Dirac particles in a random one-dimensional scalar potential. We focus explicitly on the effect of disorder correlations, considering a short-range…

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One propose a relativistic version of the transfer matrix method for an electron moving through a given number of rectangular barriers of arbitrary shape. It is shown that starting with the Dirac equation depending on the effective mass and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Ion I. Cotaescu , Paul Gravila , Marius Paulescu

In the realm of relativistic quantum mechanics, we address a fundamental question: Which one, between the Dirac or the Foldy-Wouthuysen density, accurately provide a probability density for finding a massive particle with spin $1/2$ at a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Taeseung Choi , Yeong Deok Han

We show that spin-flip probabilities emerge in the relativistic regime for scalar potentials, absent in the standard Dirac representation. We examine 1D scattering for the Dirac equation employing an alternate matrix representation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Muhammad Adeel Ajaib

We discuss the dynamics of particles in one dimension in potentials that are random both in space and in time. The results are applied to recent optics experiments on Anderson localization, in which the transverse spreading of a beam is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-08-30 Yevgeny Krivolapov , Liad Levi , Shmuel Fishman , Mordechai Segev , Michael Wilkinson

We present an extension of relativistic single-particle distribution function for weakly interacting particles at local thermodynamical equilibrium including spin degrees of freedom, for massive spin 1/2 particles. We infer, on the basis of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Becattini , V. Chandra , L. Del Zanna , E. Grossi

The Anderson transitions in a random magnetic field in three dimensions are investigated numerically. The critical behavior near the transition point is analyzed in detail by means of the transfer matrix method with high accuracy for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-09-27 T. Kawarabayashi , B. Kramer , T. Ohtsuki

We address the propagation of the spin along classical trajectories for a 1/2-spin particle obeying the Dirac equation with scalar potentials. Focusing on classical trajectories as the exact propagation of wave-function discontinuities we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 Jesús Rubio , Alfredo Luis

Anderson localization is a quantum phenomenon in which disorder localizes electronic wavefunctions. In this work, we propose a new approach to study Anderson localization based on the density matrix formalism. Drawing an analogy to the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-31 Ziyue Qi , Yi Zhang , Mingpu Qin , Hongming Weng , Kun Jiang

Anderson localization is studied for two-dimensional Dirac fermions in the presence of strong random scattering. Averaging with respect to the latter leads to a graphical representation of the correlation function with entangled random…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-12-25 K. Ziegler

We consider the motion of a quantum particle whose position is measured in random places at random moments in time. We show that a freely moving particle measured in this way undergoes superdiffusion, while a charged particle moving in a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-10 V. Gurarie

We study a one-dimensional model of disordered electrons (also relevant for random spin chains), which exhibits a delocalisation transition at half-filling. Exact probability distribution functions for the Wigner time and transmission…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Steiner , Yang Chen , M. Fabrizio , Alexander O. Gogolin

We investigate the statistics of encounters of a diffusing particle with different subsets of the boundary of a confining domain. The encounters with each subset are characterized by the boundary local time on that subset. We extend a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-14 Denis S. Grebenkov

We find the laws for the spreading of the spatial widths (parallel and transverse to the direction of average motion) of the relativistic position probability density for a massive, spinless particle. We find that when the momentum width of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Scott E. Hoffmann

We compute the distribution function of single-level curvatures, $P(k)$, for a tight binding model with site disorder, on a cubic lattice. In metals $P(k)$ is very close to the predictions of the random-matrix theory (RMT). In insulators…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. M. Canali , Chaitali Basu , W. Stephan , V. E. Kravtsov

We consider a random Schr\"odinger operator on the binary tree with a random potential which is the sum of a random radially symmetric potential, $Q_r$, and a random transversally periodic potential, $\kappa Q_t$, with coupling constant…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Richard Froese , Darrick Lee , Christian Sadel , Wolfgang Spitzer , Günter Stolz

We consider the asymptotic evolution of a relativistic spin-1/2-particle. i.e. a particle whose wavefunction satisfies the Dirac equation with external static potential. We prove that the probability for the particle crossing a (detector)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Duerr , P. Pickl

We consider a d-dimensional random quantum walk with site-dependent random coin operators. The corresponding transition coefficients are characterized by deterministic amplitudes times independent identically distributed site-dependent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-06 Alain Joye

We study spectra and localization properties of Euclidean random matrices. The problem is approximately mapped onto that of a matrix defined on a random graph. We introduce a powerful method to find the density of states and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Ciliberti , T. S. Grigera , V. Martin-Mayor , G. Parisi , P. Verrocchio

We study quantum dynamics of a kicked relativistic spin-half particle in a one dimensional box. Time-dependence of the average kinetic energy and evolution of the wave packet are explored. Kicking potential is introduced as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-05 V. E. Eshniyazov , D. U. Matrasulov , J. R. Yusupov
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