The Aharonov-Bohm effect for massless Dirac fermions and the spectral flow of Dirac-type operators with classical boundary conditions

DOI10.1007/s11232-012-0112-8zbMath1282.82064arXiv1204.2276OpenAlexW2148807946MaRDI 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

zbMATH Keywords

spectral flowAharonov-Bohm effectgraphenetopological insulatorAtiyah-Bott index theoremAtiyah-singer index theoremindex locality principlemassless Dirac fermionself-adjoint Dirac operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Index theory for dynamical systems, Morse-Conley indices (37B30) Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles (82D80)

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