Published February 28, 2014
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Journal article
Scattering of massless Dirac particles by oscillating barriers in one dimension
- 1. GISC, Departamento de Física de Materiales, Universidad Complutense, E-28040 Madrid (Spain)
- 2. Laboratorio de Bajas Temperaturas, Universidad de Salamanca, E-37008 Salamanca (Spain)
Description
We study the scattering of massless Dirac particles by oscillating barriers in one dimension. Using the Floquet theory, we find the exact scattering amplitudes for time-harmonic barriers of arbitrary shape. In all cases the scattering amplitudes are found to be independent of the energy of the incoming particle and the transmission coefficient is unity. This is a manifestation of the Klein tunneling in time-harmonic potentials. Remarkably, the transmission amplitudes for arbitrary sharply-peaked potentials also become independent of the driving frequency. Conditions for which barriers of finite width can be replaced by sharply-peaked potentials are discussed.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2014.01.017Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physleta.2014.01.017;
- PII
- S0375-9601(14)00063-2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics Letters. A
- Journal Volume
- 378
- Journal Issue
- 13
- Journal Page Range
- p. 927-930
- ISSN
- 0375-9601
- CODEN
- PYLAAG
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 46023714
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- HARMONIC POTENTIAL; MASSLESS PARTICLES; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; PARTICLES; SCATTERING; SCATTERING AMPLITUDES; TIME DEPENDENCE; TRANSMISSION; TUNNEL EFFECT
- Descriptors DEC
- AMPLITUDES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; NUCLEAR POTENTIAL; POTENTIALS
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2014 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.