The Aharonov-Bohm effect for massless Dirac fermions and the spectral flow of Dirac-type operators with classical boundary conditions
DOI10.1007/s11232-012-0112-8zbMath1282.82064arXiv1204.2276MaRDI QIDQ395101
Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Vladimir E. Nazaikinskii
Publication date: 28 January 2014
Published in: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2276
spectral flow; Aharonov-Bohm effect; graphene; topological insulator; Atiyah-Bott index theorem; Atiyah-singer index theorem; index locality principle; massless Dirac fermion; self-adjoint Dirac operator
81Q05: Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics
37B30: Index theory for dynamical systems, Morse-Conley indices
82D80: Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles