Quantum transport through 3D Dirac materials

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2015.04.007MaRDI QIDQ305318zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Salehi, S. A. Jafari

Publication date 29 August 2016

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.8048

zbMATH Keywords

boundary conditionBismuththree dimensional Dirac materialLandauer-Büttiker formalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Abstract: Bismuth and its alloys provide a paradigm to realize three dimensional materials whose low-energy effective theory is given by Dirac equation in 3+1 dimensions. We study the quantum transport properties of three dimensional Dirac materials within the framework of Landauer-B"uttiker formalism. Charge carriers in normal metal satisfying the Schr"odinger equation, can be split into four-component with appropriate matching conditions at the boundary with the three dimensional Dirac material (3DDM). We calculate the conductance and the Fano factor of an interface separating 3DDM from a normal metal, as well as the conductance through a slab of 3DDM. Under certain circumstances the 3DDM appears transparent to electrons hitting the 3DDM. We find that electrons hitting the metal-3DDM interface from metallic side can enter 3DDM in a reversed spin state as soon as their angle of incidence deviates from the the direction perpendicular to interface. However the presence of a second interface completely cancels this effect.

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