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The nonlinear interaction between intense laser light and a quantum plasma is modeled by a collective Dirac equation coupled with the Maxwell equations. The model is used to study the nonlinear propagation of relativistically intense laser…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Bengt Eliasson , Padma K. Shukla

Effect of spin-orbit scattering on quantum diffusive transport of two-dimensional massive Dirac fermions is studied by the diagrammatic technique. The quantum diffusion of massive Dirac fermions can be viewed as a singlet Cooperon in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-07 Wen-Yu Shan , Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

Interactions between atoms and light fields are usually described in the electric-dipole approximation. We show that electric-quadrupole terms are important in the Kapitza-Dirac arrangement for light gratings on resonance with a quadrupole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-06 Pedro Sancho

The Dirac equation is used to describe oblique spin-conserving and spin-flip reflections of relativistic electrons from a one-dimensional potential barrier in a vacuum. When an electron hits the barrier from an oblique direction, its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Wlodek Zawadzki , Pawel Pfeffer

Computational methods are indispensable to study the quantum dynamics of relativistic light-matter interactions in parameter regimes where analytical methods become inapplicable. We present numerical methods for solving the time-dependent…

We consider properties of a two-dimensional electron system in a random magnetic field. It is assumed that the magnetic field not only influences orbital electron motion but also acts on the electron spin. For calculations, we suggest a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kazutaka Takahashi , K. B. Efetov

We present the results of the planar diffusion of a Dirac particle by step and barrier potentials, when the incoming wave impinges at an arbitrary angle with the potential. Except for right-angle incidence this process is characterized by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-26 Stefano De Leo , Pietro Rotelli

The Dirac equation is a cornerstone in the history of physics, merging successfully quantum mechanics with special relativity, providing a natural description of the electron spin and predicting the existence of anti-matter. Furthermore, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-08 R. Gerritsma , G. Kirchmair , F. Zähringer , E. Solano , R. Blatt , C. F. Roos

We study Kapitza-Dirac diffraction of a Bose-Einstein condensate from a standing light wave for a square pulse with variable pulse length but constant pulse area. We find that for sufficiently weak pulses, the usual analytical short-pulse…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2009-11-17 Bryce Gadway , Daniel Pertot , Rene Reimann , Martin G. Cohen , Dominik Schneble

We analyze the Bragg regime of the two-particle Kapitza-Dirac arrangement, completing the basic theory of this effect. We provide a detailed evaluation of the detection probabilities for multi-mode states, showing that a complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pedro Sancho

In this article, we investigate the relativistic quantum dynamics of spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particles in (1+2)-dimensional G\"{u}rses space-time backgrounds, and analyze the effects on the eigenvalues. We solve the Dirac equation using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-05 Faizuddin Ahmed

Spin distribution in the diffraction pattern of two-dimensional electron gas by a split gate and a quantum point contact is computed in the presence of the spin-orbit coupling. After diffracted, the component of spin perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Cheng-Ju Lin , Chyh-Hong Chern

Dirac particle represents a fundamental constituent of our nature. Simulation of Dirac particle dynamics by a controllable quantum system using quantum walks will allow us to investigate the non-classical nature of dynamics in its discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Arindam Mallick , Sanjoy Mandal , Anirban Karan , C. M. Chandrashekar

The phenomenon of spin-dependent quantum scattering in two-dimensional (2D) pseudospin-1/2 Dirac materials leading to a relativistic quantum chimera was recently uncovered. We investigate spin-dependent Dirac electron optics in 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Li-Li Ye , Chen-Di Han , Ying-Cheng Lai

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

The relativistic spinning particle model, proposed in [3,4], is analyzed in a Hamiltonian framework. The spin is simulated by extending the configuration space by introducing a light-like four vector degree of freedom. The model is heavily…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 Sudipta Das , Subir Ghosh

We analyze the diffraction regime of the Kapitza-Dirac effect for particles entangled in momentum. The detection patterns show two-particle interferences. In the single-mode case we identify a discontinuity in the set of joint detection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Pedro Sancho

Negative states are an intrinsic property of relativistic quantum theory and related to anti-particles in the context of the Dirac sea concept. We show that negative states can dominantly contribute to the diffraction amplitude in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Qianlong Wang , Sven Ahrens , Baifei Shen

In this paper conceptual points regarding electrons elastic (Kapitza-Dirac effect) and inelastic diffraction effect on the different type slowed electromagnetic wave structures/light gratings are considered. From the unified point of view…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-21 H. K. Avetissian

The kinetic equation used for the description of Dirac systems does not fully take into account two features that play an important role in the vicinity of the Dirac point: (i) the spin degree of freedom, in particular if the spin-flip…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-19 Oleksiy Kashuba , Björn Trauzettel , Laurens W. Molenkamp