Title
Quantum charged spinning massless particles in 2 + 1 dimensions
Date Issued
01 December 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV)
Publisher(s)
Springer
Abstract
Motivated by the conduction properties of graphene discovered and studied in the last decades, we consider the quantum dynamics of a massless, charged, spin 1/2 relativistic particle in three dimensional space-time, in the presence of an electrostatic field in various configurations such as step or barrier potentials and generalizations of them. The field is taken as parallel to the y coordinate axis and vanishing outside of a band parallel to the x axis. The classical theory is reviewed, together with its canonical quantization leading to the Dirac equation for a 2-component spinor. Stationary solutions are numerically found for each of the field configurations considered, from which we calculate the mean quantum trajectories of the particle and compare them with the corresponding classical trajectories, the latter showing a classical version of the Klein phenomenon. Transmission and reflection probabilities are also calculated, confirming the Klein phenomenon.
Volume
79
Issue
12
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de la materia condensada
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85076484552
Source
European Physical Journal C
ISSN of the container
14346044
Sponsor(s)
This work was partially funded by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico—CNPq, Brazil (I.M., B. N., Z.O. and O.P.), by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior—CAPES, Brazil (I.M. and B.N.), by the Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais - FAPEMIG, Brazil (O.P.) and by the Grupo de Sistemas Complejos de la Carrera de Física de la Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, UMSA, Bolivia (Z.O.), for their support.
This work was partially funded by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico?CNPq, Brazil (I.M., B. N., Z.O. and O.P.), by the Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior?CAPES, Brazil (I.M. and B.N.), by the Funda??o de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais - FAPEMIG, Brazil (O.P.) and by the Grupo de Sistemas Complejos de la Carrera de F?sica de la Universidad Mayor de San Andr?s, UMSA, Bolivia (Z.O.), for their support.
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