A new phenomenon in graphene: The pseudospinorial Zitterbewegung
arXiv:2010.08801 · doi:10.1063/1.5078642
Abstract
We foretell a new pseudospin-dependent phenomenon in mono-layer graphene (MLG), which is numerically simulated \emph{via} an innovator nano-spintronic device. We proposed a novel theoretical procedure for describing the dynamics of Dirac fermions, departing from classic theoretical modelling. More importantly, we have found appealing evidences of wiggling anti-phase oscillations in the probability density time-distribution for each sub-lattice state, which we called pseudospinorial Zitterbewegung effect (PZBE). The PZBE undergoes modulated by a robust transient character, with decay time of femtoseconds. Interestingly, several features of the PZBE become tunable, even up to fully vanishing it at the vicinity of the Dirac points, as well as for a symmetric pseudospin configuration. We have observed evidences of perfect Klein tunneling and perfect anti-Klein backscattering in a single simulation, which is unprecedented for Q1D-MLG, as far as we know.
9 pages, 8 figures
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