Published February 28, 2014 | Version v1
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.

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2014.01.017

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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

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