A Polynomial Approach to the Spectrum of Dirac-Weyl Polygonal Billiards

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العنوان: A Polynomial Approach to the Spectrum of Dirac-Weyl Polygonal Billiards
المؤلفون: Quintela, M. F. C. Martins, Santos, J. M. B. Lopes dos
المصدر: J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 33 035901 (2020)
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Computational Physics, Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
الوصف: The Schr\"odinger equation in a square or rectangle with hard walls is solved in every introductory quantum mechanics course. Solutions for other polygonal enclosures only exist in a very restricted class of polygons, and are all based on a result obtained by Lam\'e in 1852. Any enclosure can, of course, be addressed by finite element methods for partial differential equations. In this paper, we present a variational method to approximate the low-energy spectrum and wave-functions for arbitrary convex polygonal enclosures, developed initially for the study of vibrational modes of plates. In view of the recent interest in the spectrum of quantum dots of two dimensional materials, described by effective models with massless electrons, we extend the method to the Dirac-Weyl equation for a spin-1/2 fermion confined in a quantum billiard of polygonal shape, with different types of boundary conditions. We illustrate the method's convergence in cases where the spectrum in known exactly and apply it to cases where no exact solution exists.
Comment: 17 pages, 10 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/abbe77
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.16176
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2007.16176
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1088/1361-648X/abbe77