Heun functions and some of their applications in physics

M Hortaçsu - Advances in High Energy Physics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Most of the theoretical physics known today is described by using a small number of
differential equations. For linear systems, different forms of the hypergeometric or the …

Quantum information entropy of hyperbolic potentials in fractional schrödinger equation

R Santana-Carrillo, JS González-Flores… - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this work we have studied the Shannon information entropy for two hyperbolic single-well
potentials in the fractional Schrödinger equation (the fractional derivative number (0< n≤ 2) …

Shannon information entropy for a hyperbolic double‐well potential

GH Sun, SH Dong, KD Launey… - … Journal of Quantum …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We use the ansatz method to obtain the symmetric and antisymmetric solutions of a
hyperbolic double‐well potential by solving the Heun differential equation. The Shannon …

Wakes in complex plasmas: A self-consistent kinetic theory

R Kompaneets, GE Morfill, AV Ivlev - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
In ground-based experiments with complex (dusty) plasmas, charged microparticles are
levitated against gravity by an electric field, which also drives ion flow in the parent gas …

Guiding Dirac fermions in graphene with a carbon nanotube

A Cheng, T Taniguchi, K Watanabe, P Kim, JD Pillet - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
Relativistic massless charged particles in a two-dimensional conductor can be guided by a
one-dimensional electrostatic potential, in an analogous manner to light guided by an …

Exact solutions of the Schrödinger equation for another class of hyperbolic potential wells

XH Wang, CY Chen, Y You, DS Sun, FL Lu… - Physica …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work a new scheme is proposed to study the exact solutions of another class of
hyperbolic potentials U p. We first obtain two linearly dependent eigenfunctions …

Current-voltage characteristics of Weyl semimetal semiconducting devices, Veselago lenses, and hyperbolic Dirac phase

RDY Hills, A Kusmartseva, FV Kusmartsev - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The current-voltage characteristics of a new range of devices built around Weyl semimetals
has been predicted using the Landauer formalism. The potential step and barrier have been …

Massless Dirac fermions in two dimensions: Confinement in nonuniform magnetic fields

CA Downing, ME Portnoi - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
We show how it is possible to trap two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions in spatially
inhomogeneous magnetic fields, as long as the formed magnetic quantum dot (or ring) is of …

Critical behavior of the Anderson model on the Bethe lattice via a large-deviation approach

G Biroli, AK Hartmann, M Tarzia - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We present a new, large-deviation approach to investigate the critical properties of the
Anderson model on the Bethe lattice close to the localization transition in the thermodynamic …

Dirac electron in graphene under supersymmetry generated magnetic fields

B Midya, DJ Fernández - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We use supersymmetry transformations to obtain new one parameter families of
inhomogeneous magnetic fields $\boldsymbol {B}=\widetilde {\mathcal {B}}(x,\lambda)\hat …