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Time-dependent massless Dirac fermions in graphene

Khantoul, B. & Fring, A. (2015). Time-dependent massless Dirac fermions in graphene. Physics Letters A, 379(42), pp. 2704-2706. doi: 10.1016/j.physleta.2015.08.011

Abstract

Using the Lewis–Riesenfeld method of invariants we construct explicit analytical solutions for the massless Dirac equation in 2+1 dimensions describing quasi-particles in graphene. The Hamiltonian of the system considered contains some explicit time-dependence in addition to one resulting from being minimally coupled to a time-dependent vector potential. The eigenvalue equations for the two spinor components of the Lewis–Riesenfeld invariant are found to decouple into a pair of supersymmetric invariants in a similar fashion as the known decoupling for the time-independent Dirac Hamiltonians.

Publication Type: Article
Additional Information: © 2015, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
Departments: School of Science & Technology > Mathematics
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