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We present a new approach to study (1+1)-dimensional Dirac equation in the background of an effective mass $M$ by exploiting the possibility of a position-dependent fermi velocity $v_f$. We explore the resulting structure of the coupled…

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We provide a systematic and self-contained exposition of the subject of localized qubits in curved spacetimes. This research was motivated by a simple experimental question: if we move a spatially localized qubit, initially in a state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-05 Matthew C. Palmer , Maki Takahashi , Hans F. Westman

This work is devoted to incorporating into QFT the notion that particles and hence the particle states should be localizable in space. It focuses on the case of the Dirac field in 1+1 dimensional flat spacetime, generalizing a recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-23 Aleksander M. Kubicki , Hans Westman , Juan Leon

Dirac fermions, subject to external magnetic fields and in the presence of mass orders that assume topologically nontrivial spatial textures such as domain wall and vortices, for example, bind robust midgap states at zero energy, the number…

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In this article we investigate and solve exactly the modified Dirac oscillator in curved spacetime with spin and pseudospin symmetries through an algebraic approach. By focusing on the radial part of this problem, we use the Schr\"odinger…

We study the mini--superspace quantization of spatially homogeneous (Bianchi) cosmological universes sourced by a Dirac spinor field. The quantization of the homogeneous spinor leads to a finite-dimensional fermionic Hilbert space and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-05 Thibault Damour , Philippe Spindel

Grassmann-valued Dirac fields together with the electromagnetic field (the pseudoclassical basis of QED) are reformulated on spacelike hypersurfaces in Minkowski spacetime and then restricted to Wigner hyperplanes to get their description…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Bigazzi , L. Lusanna

In two-dimensional Dirac semimetals, massless Dirac fermions can form a series of Efimov-like quasibound states in an attractive Coulomb potential. In an applied magnetic field, these quasibound states can become bound states around the…

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Some aspects of the theory of fermions living on three dimensional spacetime with a flat co-dimension one boundary are discussed, particularly a case where the boundary condition preserves scale and translation invariance but violates the…

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We show how it is possible to trap two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions in spatially inhomogeneous magnetic fields, as long as the formed magnetic quantum dot (or ring) is of a slowly decaying nature. It is found that a modulation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

In this work we investigate the issue of fermion localization and resonances in $(4,1)$-deformed branes constructed with one scalar field coupled with gravity. Such models provide us branes with internal structures that turns the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 W. T. Cruz , A. R. Gomes , C. A. S. Almeida

Stationary bound states of elementary spin 1/2 particles that do not decay with time are obtained for a Schwarzschild gravitational field using a self-conjugate Hamiltonian with a flat scalar product at small values of gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-02 M. V. Gorbatenko , V. P. Neznamov

Using the Lewis-Riesenfeld method of invariants we construct explicit analytical solutions for the massless Dirac equation in 2+1 dimensions describing quasi-particles in graphene. The Hamiltonian of the system considered contains some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 Boubakeur Khantoul , Andreas Fring

This paper explores the relativistic behavior of spin--half particles possessing an Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) in a curved spacetime background induced by a spiral dislocation. A thorough review of the mathematical formulation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-05 A. A. Araújo Filho , H. Hassanabadi , J. A. A. S. Reis , L. Lisboa-Santos

Causal systems describe the localizability of relativistic quantum systems complying with the principles of special relativity and elementary causality. At their classification we restrict ourselves to real mass and finite spinor systems.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Domenico P. L. Castrigiano

We study the unitary relaxation dynamics of disordered spin chains following a sudden quench of the Hamiltonian. We give analytical arguments, corroborated by specific numerical examples, to show that the existence of a stationary state…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-12-21 Simone Ziraldo , Alessandro Silva , Giuseppe E. Santoro

We study localization properties of two-dimensional Dirac fermions subject to a power-law-correlated random vector potential describing, e.g., the effect of "ripples" in graphene. By using a variety of techniques (low-order perturbation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. V. Khveshchenko

We study a relativistic charged Dirac particle moving in a rotating magnetic field. By using a time-dependent unitary transformation, the Dirac equation with the time-dependent Hamiltonian can be reduced to a Dirac-like equation with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Qiong-gui Lin

In this paper we study the Dirac equation in the Rindler spacetime. The solution of the wave equation in an accelerated reference frame is obtained. The differential equation associated to this wave equation is mapped into a Sturm-Liouville…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-04 L. C. N. Santos , C. C. Barros

We propose a model of an electrically charged fermion as a regular localized solution of electromagnetic and spinor fields interacting with a physical vacuum, which is phenomenologically described as a logarithmic superfluid. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-09 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Arislan Makhmudov , Konstantin G. Zloshchastiev