The Landau-Zener Transition and the Surface Hopping Method for the 2D Dirac Equation for Graphene

The Landau-Zener Transition and the Surface Hopping Method for the 2D Dirac Equation for Graphene

Year:    2017

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 21 (2017), Iss. 2 : pp. 313–357

Abstract

A Lagrangian surface hopping algorithm is implemented to study the two dimensional massless Dirac equation for Graphene with an electrostatic potential, in the semiclassical regime. In this problem, the crossing of the energy levels of the system at Dirac points requires a particular treatment in the algorithm in order to describe the quantum transition – characterized by the Landau-Zener probability – between different energy levels. We first derive the Landau-Zener probability for the underlying problem, then incorporate it into the surface hopping algorithm. We also show that different asymptotic models for this problem derived in [O. Morandi, F. Schurrer, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 44 (2011) 265301] may give different transition probabilities. We conduct numerical experiments to compare the solutions to the Dirac equation, the surface hopping algorithm, and the asymptotic models of [O. Morandi, F. Schurrer, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 44 (2011) 265301].

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.020515.250716a

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 21 (2017), Iss. 2 : pp. 313–357

Published online:    2017-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    45

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