A semi-classical analysis of Dirac fermions in 2+1 dimensions

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/45/18/185307zbMATH Open1247.81124arXiv1108.4384OpenAlexW3104020784MaRDI QIDQ2890755

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Publication date: 12 June 2012

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Abstract: We investigate the semiclassical dynamics of massless Dirac fermions in 2+1 dimensions in the presence of external electromagnetic fields. By generalizing the $alpha$ matrices to the spin-$S$ matrices and doing a certain scaling, we formulate a $Sightarrowinfty$ limit where the spin and the orbital degrees become classical. We solve for the classical trajectories for a free particle on a cylinder and a particle in a constant magnetic field. We compare the semiclassical spectrum, obtained by Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization with the exact quantum spectrum for low values of. For the free particle, the semiclassical spectrum is exact. For the particle in a constant magnetic field, the semiclassical spectrum reproduces all the qualitative features of the exact quantum spectrum at all $S$. The quantitative fit for $S=1/2$ is reasonably good.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4384

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