Effect of topological defects and Coulomb charge on the low energy quantum dynamics of gapped graphene

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/46/5/055303zbMATH Open1267.81137arXiv1207.5705OpenAlexW3105689047MaRDI QIDQ4920428FDOQ4920428

Authors: Baishali Chakraborty, Kumar S. Gupta, Siddhartha Sen 

Publication date: 17 May 2013

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the combined effect of a conical topological defect and a Coulomb charge impurity on the dynamics of Dirac fermions in gapped graphene. Beyond a certain strength of the Coulomb charge, quantum instability sets in, which demarcates the boundary between sub and supercritical values of the charge. In the subcritical regime, for certain values of the system parameters, the allowed boundary conditions in gapped graphene cone can be classified in terms of a single real parameter. We show that the observables such as local density of states, scattering phase shifts and the bound state spectra are sensitive to the value of this real parameter, which is interesting from an empirical point of view. For a supercritical Coulomb charge, we analyze the system with a regularized potential as well as with a zigzag boundary condition and find the effect of the sample topology on the observable features of the system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.5705

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles (82D80)

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