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Massless Dirac particles are characterized by an effective pseudospin-momentum locking, which is the origin of the peculiar scattering properties of Dirac particles through potential barriers. This pseudospin-momentum locking also governs…

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We investigate the quantum geometric tensor, which is comprised of the Berry curvature and quantum metric, in a generalized Dirac two-band system with non-integer dispersion $E(\mathbf{k})\sim k^{\alpha}$. Our analysis reveals that this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-03 Jamme Omar A. Biscocho , Kristian Hauser A. Villegas

We calculate the differential, total, and transport cross-sections for scattering of two-dimensional massless Dirac electrons by a circular barrier. For scatterer of a small radius, the cross-sections are dominated by quantum effects such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Jhih-Sheng Wu , Michael M. Fogler

The Berry phase-related nontrivial electronic band geometries can significantly influence bulk and edge plasmons resulting in their non-reciprocal propagation and opening new opportunities for plasmonics. In the present work, we extend the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Cooper Finnigan , Dmitry K. Efimkin

Within an effective Dirac-Weyl theory we solve the scattering problem for massless chiral fermions impinging on a cylindrical time-dependent potential barrier. The set-up we consider can be used to model the electron propagation in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 C. Schulz , R. L. Heinisch , H. Fehske

Quantum geometry characterizes the variation of wavefunctions in momentum space through their overlaps and relative phases, providing a general framework for understanding many transport and optical properties. It is generally formulated in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-20 Alejandro S. Miñarro , Gervasi Herranz

Graphene bilayers with layer antisymmetric strains are studied using the Dirac-Harper model for a pair of single layer Dirac Hamiltonians coupled by a one-dimensional moir\'e-periodic interlayer tunneling amplitude. This model hosts low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Abigail Timmel , E. J. Mele

The scattering of two-dimensional (2D) massless Dirac electrons is investigated in the presence of a random array of circular mass barriers. The inverse momentum relaxation time and the Hall factor are calculated and used to obtain parallel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Ramezani Masir , A. Matulis , F. M. Peeters

We consider Dirac quasi-particles, as realized with cold atoms loaded in a honeycomb lattice or in a $\pi$-flux square lattice, in the presence of a weak correlated disorder such that the disorder fluctuations do not couple the two Dirac…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-04-30 Kean Loon Lee , Benoît Grémaud , Christian Miniatura

Berry curvature-related topological phenomena have been a central topic in condensed matter physics. Yet, until recently other quantum geometric quantities such as the metric and connection received only little attention due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Yiyang Jiang , Tobias Holder , Binghai Yan

Viewing gravitational energy-momentum as equal by observation, but different in essence from inertial energy-momentum naturally leads to the gauge theory of volume-preserving diffeormorphisms of a four-dimensional in- ner space. To analyse…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-08-05 Christian Wiesendanger

Quantum mechanics is sensitive to the geometry of the underlying space. Here, we present a framework for quantum scattering of a non-relativistic particle confined to a two-dimensional space. When the motion manifold hosts localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Lars Meschede , Benjamin Schwager , Dominik Schulz , Jamal Berakdar

A nonrelativistic quantum mechanical particle moving freely on a curved surface feels the effect of the nontrivial geometry of the surface through the kinetic part of the Hamiltonian, which is proportional to the Laplace-Beltrami operator,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 Neslihan Oflaz , Ali Mostafazadeh , Mehrdad Ahmady

We discuss the quantum geometric contribution to the diffusion constant and the DC conductivity in metals and semimetals with linear Dirac dispersion. We demonstrate that, for systems with perfectly linear dispersion, there exists a clear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 A. A. Burkov

In this research, we present a Python-based solution designed to simulate a one-dimensional quantum system that incorporates multiple Dirac $\delta -$% potentials. The primary aim of this research is to investigate the scattering problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Erfan Keshavarz , S. Habib Mazharimousavi

Injection and shift currents are generally regarded as distinct nonlinear optical responses with separate microscopic origins. Here, we uncover a general hidden connection between them through interband Berry-curvature and quantum-metric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Mohammad Yahyavi , Tay-Rong Chang , Md Shafayat Hossain , Arun Bansil , Naoto Nagaosa , Guoqing Chang

We investigate the influence of the temporal variations of various medium parameters on the propagation of Dirac-type waves in materials where the quasiparticles are described by a generalized version of the pseudospin-1/2 Dirac equation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Seulong Kim , Kihong Kim

In the vortex state of a d-wave superconductor, massless Dirac quasiparticles are scattered from magnetic vortices via a combination of two basic mechanisms: effective potential scattering due to the superflow swirling about the vortices…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-08-29 M. Kulkarni , Sriram Ganeshan , A. C. Durst

Due to Klein tunneling in graphene only quasi-bound states are realized in graphene quantum dots by electrostatic gating. Particles in the quasi-bound states are trapped inside the dot for a finite time and they keep bouncing back and forth…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Abdelhadi Belouad , Youness Zahidi , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

We study the scattering of Dirac electrons of circular graphene quantum dot with mass-inverted subject to electrostatic potential. The obtained solutions of the energy spectrum are used to determine the scattering coefficients at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Fatima Belokda , Ahmed Jellal , El Houssine Atmani
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