Plunging in the Dirac sea using graphene quantum dots
arXiv:2009.07648 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033472
Abstract
The dynamics of low energy charge carriers in a graphene quantum dot subjected to a time-dependent local field is investigated numerically. In particular, we study a configuration where a Coulomb electric field is provided by an ion traversing the graphene sample. A Galerkin-like numerical scheme is introduced to solve the massless Dirac equation describing charge carriers subjected to space- and time-dependent electromagnetic potentials and is used to evaluate the field induced interband transitions. It is demonstrated that as the ion goes through graphene, electron-hole pairs are generated dynamically via the adiabatic pair creation mechanism around avoided crossings, similar to electron-positron pair generation in low energy heavy ion collisions.
16 pages, 9 figures
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