• 文献标题:   The Landau-Zener Transition and the Surface Hopping Method for the 2D Dirac Equation for Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   FARAJ A, JIN S
  • 作者关键词:   dirac equation, wigner transform, semiclassical model, band crossing, landauzener formula, surface hopping algorithm, spectral method
  • 出版物名称:   COMMUNICATIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1815-2406 EI 1991-7120
  • 通讯作者地址:   Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.4208/cicp.020515.250716a
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

A Lagrangian surface hopping algorithm is implemented to study the two dimensional massless Dirac equation for Graphene with an electrostatic potential, in the semiclassical regime. In this problem, the crossing of the energy levels of the system at Dirac points requires a particular treatment in the algorithm in order to describe the quantum transition-characterized by the Landau-Zener probability-between different energy levels. We first derive the Landau-Zener probability for the underlying problem, then incorporate it into the surface hopping algorithm. We also show that different asymptotic models for this problem derived in [O. Morandi, F. Schurrer, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 44 (2011) 265301] may give different transition probabilities. We conduct numerical experiments to compare the solutions to the Dirac equation, the surface hopping algorithm, and the asymptotic models of