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We investigate electron tunneling in AB bilayer graphene through a triple electrostatic barrier of heights $U_i (i=2,3,4)$ subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field. By way of the transfer matrix method and using the continuity conditions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Mouhamadou Hassane Saley , Ahmed Jellal

The propagation of electromagnetic waves in a Lorentz-symmetry violating scenario where there is a region of polarized vacuum is studied. It turns out that the photon field acquires an interesting polarization state, possibly useful to set…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 B. Agostini , F. A. Barone , F. E. Barone , Patricio Gaete , J. A. Helayël-Neto

We investigate the scattering of two distinguishable particles with unequal masses and a mutual short-range interaction with the aim of quantifying the impact of a tunneling ``projectile'' particle on the quantum mechanical state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Roman Michelko , Peter Bokes

Tunneling of electrons into a two-dimensional electron system is known to exhibit an anomaly at low bias, in which the tunneling conductance vanishes due to a many-body interaction effect. Recent experiments have measured this anomaly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-02 Debanjan Chowdhury , Brian Skinner , Patrick A. Lee

Tunneling is one of the most bizarre phenomena in quantum mechanics. An attempt to understand it led to the next natural question of how long does a particle need to tunnel a barrier. The latter gave rise to several definitions such as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 N. G. Kelkar

Electromagnetic waves propagate in the Schwarzschild spacetime like in a nonuniform medium with a varying refraction index. A fraction of the radiation scatters off the curvature of the geometry. The energy of the backscattered part of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Edward Malec

We study the tunneling effect of Dirac fermions in a graphene sheet by introducing a potential barrier in a region of width $D$ exposed to laser field. This sheet is placed on a boron nitride/ferromagnetic substrate such as cobalt or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Rachid El Aitouni , Ahmed Jellal , Pablo Díaz , David Laroze

First I emphasize the magnetospheric loop current system induced by the wind activity. Next, I address the formation of the field-aligned electric field. An interesting aspect is the reaction of the inner magnetosphere to an induced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shinpei Shibata

Invariance in duality transformation, the self-dual property, has important applications in electromagnetic engineering. In the present paper, the problem of most general linear and local boundary conditions with self-dual property is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Ismo V. Lindell , Ari Sihvola

We consider the Klein-Gordon equation on two half-axes connected at their origins. We add a potential that is constant but different on each branch. In a previous paper, we studied the L-infinity-time decay via H\"ormander's version of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-07 Felix Ali Mehmeti , Robert Haller-Dintelmann , Virginie Régnier

Considering the diffraction of a plane wave by a periodically corrugated half-space, we show that the transformation of the refracting medium from positive/negative phase-velocity to negative/positive phase-velocity type has an influence on…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. A. Depine , A. Lakhtakia

We investigate the transmissions of fermions through gapped graphene structures by employing a combination of double barrier tilting and a time-oscillating potential. The latter introduces additional sidebands into the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Abderrahim El Mouhafid

When propagating through periodically structured media, i. e. photonic crystals, optical waves will be modulated with the periodicity. As a result, the dispersion of waves will no longer behave as in a free space, and so called frequency…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Chao-Hsien Kuo , Zhen Ye

Tunneling of electrons through a barrier with complex potential is investigated. We focus on two cases, symmetric double rectangular barrier and double delta potential barrier, and give expressions for resonant transmission probability for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Nikola Opacak , Vitomir Milanovic , Jelena Radovanovic

A dynamic diffraction theory is developed for describing electron diffraction by dielectric crystals in a strong electromagnetic field. It is shown that additional diffraction maxima arise in an electromagnetic field, their intensity…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 Yulian Shabolovski

Propagation of energetic particles across the mean field direction in turbulent magnetic fields is often described as spatial diffusion. Recently, it has been suggested that initially the particles propagate systematically along meandering…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-06-22 T. Laitinen , S. Dalla , D. Marriott

The quantum Hall effect is generally understood for free electron gases, in which topologically protected edge states between Landau levels (LLs) form conducting channels at the edge of the sample. In periodic crystals, the LLs are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-26 Börge Göbel , Alexander Mook , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

This work presents a mathematical theory for electromagnetic scattering resonances in a subwavelength annular hole embedded in a metallic slab, with the annulus width $h\ll1$. The model is representative among many 3D subwavelength hole…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Junshan Lin , Wangtao Lu , Hai Zhang

The strong-field laser physics enterprise is investing important resources in the study of the effects of oscillatory electric fields on matter using the tunneling concept, whereas laser fields are vector fields that do not support the…

General Physics · Physics 2019-09-20 H. R. Reiss

A theory is presented for tunneling between compressible regions on the sides of a narrow incompressible Quantum Hall strip. Assuming that electron interactions lead to formation of a Wigner crystal on the edges of the compressible regions,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 M. B. Hastings , L. S. Levitov