1303.0105 (Johan Nilsson)

Trapping massless Dirac particles in a rotating saddle    [PDF]

Johan Nilsson

We study particle motion in rotating saddle-shaped potentials. It is known that such rotating potentials can generate bounded motion for particles with a parabolic dispersion law through the balance of potential, centrifugal and Coriolis forces in the rotating frame. When applied to massless Dirac particles, for example electrons in graphene, such a potential is shown to lead to eigenstates that are spatially localized near the center of the saddle at certain energies. Although other states also exist at these energies, they are located further out from the center and this spatial separation tend to give the localized states a substantial life-time also when imperfections are present.

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