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The approximate analytical solutions of the Dirac equations with the reflectionless-type and Rosen-Morse potentials including the spin-orbit centrifugal (pseudo-centrifugal) term are obtained. Under the conditions of spin and pseudospin…

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The core concept of quantum simulation is the mapping of an inaccessible quantum system onto a controllable one by identifying analogous dynamics. We map the Dirac equation of relativistic quantum mechanics in 3+1 dimensions onto a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Elisha Svetitsky , Nadav Katz

We study the Dirac equation minimally coupled to general relativity using quantum field theory and the semiclassical gravity approximation. Previous studies of the Einstein-Dirac system did not quantize the Dirac field and required multiple…

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The phase space for graphene's minimum conductivity $\sigma_\mathrm{min}$ is mapped out using Landauer theory modified for scattering using Fermi's Golden Rule, as well as the Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) simulation with a Monte…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Redwan N. Sajjad , Frank Tseng , K. M. Masum Habib , Avik W. Ghosh

By using the general concepts of special relativity and the requirements of quantum mechanics, Dirac equation is derived and studied. Only elementary knowledge of spin and rotations in quantum mechanics and standard handlings of linear…

General Physics · Physics 2011-10-03 M. De Sanctis

Peculiar electronic properties of graphene, including the universal dc conductivity and the pseudodiffusive shot noise, are usually attributed to a small vicinity of the charge-neutrality point, away from which electron's effective mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Adam Rycerz

We investigate the quantum motion of a neutral Dirac particle bouncing on a mirror in curved spacetime. We consider different geometries: Rindler, Kasner-Taub and Schwarzschild, and show how to solve the Dirac equation by using geometrical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicolas Boulanger , Fabien Buisseret , Philippe Spindel

Semiclassical spin-coherent kinetic equations can be derived from quantum theory with many different approaches (Liouville equation based approaches, nonequilibrium Green's functions techniques, etc.). The collision integrals turn out to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-24 Janik Kailasvuori , Matthias C. Lüffe

The behavior of spin-1/2 particle in a weak static gravitational field is considered. The Dirac Hamiltonian is diagonalized by the Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation providing also the simple form for the momentum and spin polarization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. J. Silenko , O. V. Teryaev

We investigate quantum kinetic theory for a massive fermion system under a rotational field. From the Dirac equation in curved space we derive the complete set of kinetic equations for the spin components of the covariant and equal-time…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-09 Shile Chen , Ziyue Wang , Pengfei Zhuang

The single particle equations describing motion of carriers in external potential in 2D Dirac-like and Kane intrinsic semiconductors are obtained within second quantization method. The terms renormalizing external potential in these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-19 E. L. Rumyantsev , P. E. Kunavin

We present a microscopic approach to quantum dissipation and sketch the derivation of the kinetic equation describing the evolution of a simple quantum system in interaction with a complex quantum system. A typical quantum complex system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Aurel Bulgac , Giu Do Dand , Dimitri Kusnezov

We theoretically study the spin susceptibility of Dirac semimetals using the linear response theory. The spin susceptibility is decomposed into an intraband contribution and an interband contribution. We obtain analytical expressions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Yuya Ominato , Kentaro Nomura

In this contribution, we propose a new model for studying the confinement of a spin-half particle to a two-dimensional quantum ring in systems described by the Dirac equation by introducing a new minimal coupling into the Dirac equation. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-01 K. Bakke , Claudio Furtado

We provide an alternative approach to relativistic dynamics based on the Feshbach projection technique. Instead of directly studying the Dirac equation, we derive a two-component equation for the upper spinor. This approach allows one to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-21 Da-Wei Luo , P. V. Pyshkin , Ting Yu , Hai-Qing Lin , J. Q. You , Lian-Ao Wu

A new framework for deriving equations of motion for constrained quantum systems is introduced, and a procedure for its implementation is outlined. In special cases the framework reduces to a quantum analogue of the Dirac theory of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-13 Dorje C. Brody , Anna C. T. Gustavsson , Lane P. Hughston

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

In a Dirac semimetal, the conduction and valence bands contact only at discrete (Dirac) points in the Brillouin zone (BZ) and disperse linearly in all directions around these critical points. Including spin, the low energy effective theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 S. M. Young , S. Zaheer , J. C. Y. Teo , C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele , A. M. Rappe

Interest on 2 + 1 dimensional electron systems has increased considerably after the realization of novel properties of graphene sheets, in which the behaviour of electrons is effectively described by relativistic equations. Having this fact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-19 Mehmet Ali Olpak

In this paper, we study the Dirac equation for an electron constrained to move on a catenoid surface. We decoupled the two components of the spinor and obtained two Klein-Gordon-like equations. Analytical solutions were obtained using…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Ö. Yeşiltaş , J. Furtado , J. E. G. Silva