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We study a general double Dirac delta potential to show that this is the simplest yet versatile solvable potential to introduce double wells, avoided crossings, resonances and perfect transmission ($T=1$). Perfect transmission energies turn…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 Zafar Ahmed , Sachin Kumar , Mayank Sharma , Vibhu Sharma

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Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-16 Walter S. Jaronski

We consider the Dirac operator with a periodic potential on the half-line with the Dirichlet boundary condition at zero. Its spectrum consists of an absolutely continuous part plus at most one eigenvalue in each open gap. The Dirac…

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We calculate the tunneling process of a Dirac particle across two square barriers separated a distance $d$, as well as the scattering by a double cusp barrier where the centers of the cusps are separated a distance larger than their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Victor M. Villalba , Luis Gonzalez-Arraga

We introduced some contact potentials that can be written as a linear combination of the Dirac delta and its first derivative, the $\delta$-$\delta'$ interaction. After a simple general presentation in one dimension, we briefly discuss a…

Quantum scattering in the presence of a potential valley followed by a barrier is examined for the case of a Morse potential, for which exact analytic solutions to the Schr\UNICODE{0xf6}dinger equation are known in terms of confluent…

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We study the electronic states of graphene in piecewise constant potentials using the continuum Dirac equation appropriate at low energies, and a transfer matrix method. For superlattice potentials, we identify patterns of induced Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. P. Arovas , L. Brey , H. A. Fertig , Eun-Ah Kim , K. Ziegler

The Dirac equation is exactly solved for a pseudoscalar linear plus Coulomb-like potential in a two-dimensional world. This sort of potential gives rise to an effective quadratic plus inversely quadratic potential in a Sturm-Liouville…

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In this Letter the bound states of (2+1) Dirac equation with the cylindrically symmetric $\delta (r-r_{0})$-potential are discussed. It is surprisingly found that the relation between the radial functions at two sides of $r_{0}$ can be…

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For potential barriers with scalar and vector coupling, we show that a Dirac particle could experience nearly full transmission within a wide sub-barrier energy band. Moreover, for certain potential configurations, including pseudo-spin…

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We investigate the planar Dirac equation with the most general time-independent contact (singular) potential supported on a circumference. Taking advantage of the radial symmetry, the problem is effectively reduced to a one-dimensional one…

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In this work we study the Dirac equation with vector and scalar potentials in the spacetime generated by a cosmic string. Using an approximation for the centrifugal term, a solution for the radial differential equation is obtained. We…

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We examine the nonperturbative effect of maximum momentum on the relativistic wave equations. In momentum representation, we obtain the exact eigen-energies and wavefunctions of one-dimensional Klein-Gordon and Dirac equation with linear…

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By expressing the time-independent Schrodinger equation in one dimension as a system of two first-order differential equations, the transfer matrix for a rectangular potential barrier is obtained making use of the matrix exponential. It is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-06-08 G. F. Torres del Castillo , I. Rubalcava Garcia

The spherically symmetric potential $a \,\delta (r-r_0)+b\,\delta ' (r-r_0)$ is generalised for the $d$-dimensional space as a characterisation of a unique selfadjoint extension of the free Hamiltonian. For this extension of the Dirac…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 J. M. Munoz-Castaneda , L. M. Nieto , C. Romaniega

We investigate the one-dimensional Coulomb potential with application to a class of quasirelativistic systems, so-called Dirac-Weyl materials, described by matrix Hamiltonians. We obtain the exact solution of the shifted and truncated…

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