Confined Dirac particles in a constant and tilted magnetic field

DOI10.1142/S0219887815500620zbMATH Open1317.81092arXiv1202.5226MaRDI QIDQ5261036FDOQ5261036

H. Bahlouli, A. Jellal, A. D. Alhaidari

Publication date: 1 July 2015

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the confinement of charged Dirac particles in 3+1 space-time due to the presence of a constant and tilted magnetic field. We focus on the nature of the solutions of the Dirac equation and on how they depend on the choice of vector potential that gives rise to the magnetic field. In particular, we select a "Landau gauge" such that the momentum is conserved along the direction of the vector potential yielding spinor wavefunctions, which are localized in the plane containing the magnetic field and normal to the vector potential. These wave functions are expressed in terms of the Hermite polynomials. We point out the relevance of these findings to the relativistic quantum Hall effect and compare with the results obtained for a constant magnetic field normal to the plane in 2+1 dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5226

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zbMATH Keywords

Dirac equationgraphenegauge potentialconfined fermionstitled magnetic field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles (82D80)

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