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Graphene levitons and anti-levitons in magnetic fields

Derek Michael Forrester, Feodor V. Kusmartsev

Nanoscale· Volume 6· Issue 13

Abstract

The leviton is an electron or hole wavepacket that rides the surface of the Fermi sea. When a series of Lorentzian or Gaussian time dependent pulses are applied to an ultracold system a soliton-like excitation with only one electron and no localised hole emerges. Graphene is a unique system where the Fermi surface may arise from a Dirac point and therewith the levitons character may display many interesting features. For example, the leviton formation may be associated with a chiral anomaly, and inside a single potential step an anti-leviton forms. We show that the application of weak magnetic fields may switch on and off the leviton Klein tunnelling. Also, in a moderate field negative refraction arises along a curved trajectory, whereas with a stronger field a new elementary excitation - the levity vortex - in the reflected wavefunction occurs. Herein we describe these phenomena in detail along with a complete explanation of the transmission of graphene levitons at a step potential in terms of the probability densities and a series of phase diagrams and the tunnelling times.
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OpenAlex topics: Graphene research and applications · Quantum and electron transport phenomena · Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research

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Department of Physics

School of Science

Loughborough University

Leicestershire, UK

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