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We investigate the self-adjointness of the two dimensional Dirac operator with infinite mass boundary conditions on an unbounded domain with an infinite number of corners. We prove that if the domain has no concave corners, then the…

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In this paper the two-dimensional Dirac operator with a general hermitian $\delta$-shell interaction supported on a straight line is introduced as a self-adjoint operator and its spectral properties are investigated in detail. In…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Jussi Behrndt , Markus Holzmann , Matěj Tušek

The two-dimensional Dirac operator describes low-energy excitations in graphene. Different choices for the boundary conditions give rise to qualitative differences in the spectrum of the resulting operator. For a family of boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-21 Rafael D. Benguria , Søren Fournais , Edgardo Stockmeyer , Hanne Van Den Bosch

We define Dirac operators on $\mathbb{S}^3$ (and $\mathbb{R}^3$) with magnetic fields supported on smooth, oriented links and prove self-adjointness of certain (natural) extensions. We then analyze their spectral properties and show, among…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Fabian Portmann , Jérémy Sok , Jan Philip Solovej

We study the asymptotic behavior, as Planck's constant $\hbar\to 0$, of the number of discrete eigenvalues and the Riesz means of Pauli and Dirac operators with a magnetic field $\mu\mathbf{B}(x)$ and an electric field. The magnetic field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Balinsky , W. D. Evans , Roger T. Lewis

In this note the three dimensional Dirac operator $A_m$ with boundary conditions, which are the analogue of the two dimensional zigzag boundary conditions, is investigated. It is shown that $A_m$ is self-adjoint in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Markus Holzmann

We study the spectrum of spherically symmetric Dirac operators in three-dimensional space with potentials tending to infinity at infinity under weak regularity assumptions. We prove that purely absolutely continuous spectrum covers the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Karl Michael Schmidt , Osanobu Yamada

One of the main tools used to understand both qualitative and quantitative spectral behaviour of periodic and almost periodic Schr\"odinger operators is the method of gauge transform. In this paper, we extend this method to an abstract…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-06-24 Jean Lagacé , Sergey Morozov , Leonid Parnovski , Bernhard Pfirsch , Roman Shterenberg

This paper is devoted to the construction of semiclassical spectrum and efficient (simple to implement) explicit semiclassical asymptotic eigenfunctions of the Dirac operator for relatively high-energy bound states in graphene in magnetic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Vladislav Rykhlov

The magnetic Dirac operator describes the relativistic motion of a charged particle in a magnetic field. Although this operator got a lot of attention in physics many of its fundamental mathematical properties remain unexplored and this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Volker Branding , Nicolas Ginoux , Georges Habib

We study the two-dimensional Dirac operator with an arbitrary combination of electrostatic and Lorentz scalar $\delta$-interactions of constant strengths supported on a smooth closed curve. For any combination of the coupling constants a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Jussi Behrndt , Markus Holzmann , Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos , Konstantin Pankrashkin

In-plane magnetoresistance for organic massless Dirac electron system (OMDES) $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ and $\theta$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ in addition to possible candidates of the OMDES $\alpha$-(BETS)$_2$I$_3$ and…

We develop an approach to prove self-adjointness of Dirac operators with boundary or transmission conditions at a $\mathcal{C}^2$-compact surface without boundary. To do so we are lead to study the layer potential induced by the Dirac…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos , Luis Vega

We investigate the semiclassical dynamics of massless Dirac fermions in 2+1 dimensions in the presence of external electromagnetic fields. By generalizing the $\alpha$ matrices to the spin-$S$ matrices and doing a certain scaling, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Moitri Maiti , R. Shankar

We consider the two-dimensional Dirac operator with infinite mass boundary conditions posed in a tubular neighborhood of a $C^4$-planar curve. Under generic assumptions on its curvature $\kappa$, we prove that in the thin-width regime the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-19 William Borrelli , Nour Kerraoui , Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos

It is shown that the eigenvalue problem for the hermitian Wilson-Dirac operator of for a uniform magnetic field in two dimensions can be reduced to one-dimensional problem described by a relativistic analog of the Harper equation. An…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Kurokawa , T. Fujiwara

We study the problem of a Dirac field in the background of an Aharonov-Bohm flux string. We exclude the origin by imposing spectral boundary conditions at a finite radius then shrinked to zero. Thus, we obtain a behaviour of eigenfunctions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 C. G. Beneventano , M. De Francia , E. M. Santangelo

We study the solutions to the Dirac equation for the massive spinor field in the universal covering space of two-dimensional anti-de Sitter space. For certain values of the mass parameter, we impose a suitable set of boundary conditions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-18 David Serrano Blanco

This is the last paper in a series of three in which we have studied the Peierls substitution in the case of a weak magnetic field. Here we deal with two $2d$ Bloch eigenvalues which have a conical crossing. It turns out that in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Horia D. Cornean , Bernard Helffer , Radu Purice

We study the Schroedinger operator with a constant magnetic field in the exterior of a two-dimensional compact domain. Functions in the domain of the operator are subject to a boundary condition of the third type (Robin condition). In…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2009-07-14 Ayman Kachmar , Mikael Persson