Singularities, swallowtails and Dirac points. An analysis for families of Hamiltonians and applications to wire networks, especially the gyroid

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2012.08.001MaRDI QIDQ714012zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ralph M. Kaufmann, Sergei Khlebnikov, Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann

Publication date 19 October 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3262

zbMATH Keywords

singularitiesswallowtaildispersion relationDirac pointsDouble Gyroidtorus cover

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Quantum dots, waveguides, ratchets, etc. (81Q37) Quantum waveguides, quantum wires (82D77)

Abstract: Motivated by the Double Gyroid nanowire network we develop methods to detect Dirac points and classify level crossings, aka. singularities in the spectrum of a family of Hamiltonians. The approach we use is singularity theory. Using this language, we obtain a characterization of Dirac points and also show that the branching behavior of the level crossings is given by an unfolding of $A_n$ type singularities. Which type of singularity occurs can be read off a characteristic region inside the miniversal unfolding of an $A_k$ singularity. We then apply these methods in the setting of families of graph Hamiltonians, such as those for wire networks. In the particular case of the Double Gyroid we analytically classify its singularities and show that it has Dirac points. This indicates that nanowire systems of this type should have very special physical properties.

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