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Confining massless Dirac particles in two-dimensional curved space

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2018-11-02 v1

Abstract

Dirac particles have been notoriously difficult to confine. Implementing a curved space Dirac equation solver based on the quantum Lattice Boltzmann method, we show that curvature in a 2-D space can confine a portion of a charged, mass-less Dirac fermion wave-packet. This is equivalent to a finite probability of confining the Dirac fermion within a curved space region. We propose a general power law expression for the probability of confinement with respect to average spatial curvature for the studied geometry.

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@article{arxiv.1810.02102,
  title  = {Confining massless Dirac particles in two-dimensional curved space},
  author = {Kyriakos Flouris and Miller Mendoza Jimenez and Jens-Daniel Debus and Hans J. Herrmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.02102},
  year   = {2018}
}

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10 pages 8 figures

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