Thursday, December 27, 2012

1212.6072 (Charles L. Fefferman et al.)

Wave packets in Honeycomb Structures and Two-Dimensional Dirac Equations    [PDF]

Charles L. Fefferman, Michael I. Weinstein
In a recent article [10], the authors proved that the non-relativistic Schr\"odinger operator with a generic honeycomb lattice potential has conical (Dirac) points in its dispersion surfaces. These conical points occur for quasi-momenta, which are located at the vertices of the Brillouin zone, a regular hexagon. In this paper, we study the time-evolution of wave-packets, which are spectrally concentrated near such conical points. We prove that the large, but finite, time dynamics is governed by the two-dimensional Dirac equations.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6072

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