Generalized WKB theory for electron tunneling in gapped lattices

N Weekes, A Iurov, L Zhemchuzhna, G Gumbs… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We generalize Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) semiclassical equations for pseudospin-1
α− T 3 materials with arbitrary hopping parameter 0< α< 1, which includes the dice lattice …

Quantum Tunneling in the Model with an Effective Mass Term

X Ye, SS Ke, XW Du, Y Guo, HF Lü - Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 2020 - Springer
We investigate the quantum tunneling properties through a square potential barrier in the α-
T_3 α-T 3 model with an effective mass term. The additional mass term can be induced by …

Magnons scattering induced photonic chaos in the optomagnonic resonators

YP Gao, C Cao, YW Duan, XF Liu, TT Pang… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Along with the studies of the properties of optical microcavities, the optical nonlinear effects
of the material and the interaction between light and matter are becoming important topics …

Relativistic quantum chaos in graphene

HY Xu, L Huang, YC Lai - Physics Today, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In his 1987 best seller Chaos: Making a New Science, science journalist James Gleick
wrote,“Where chaos begins, classical science stops.” Indeed, after relativity and quantum …

Scattering of Dirac electrons from a skyrmion: Emergence of robust skew scattering

CZ Wang, HY Xu, YC Lai - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
We study electron scattering from a closed magnetic structure embedded in the top surface
of a topological insulator. Outside the structure there is a uniform layer of ferromagnetic …

Super skew scattering in two-dimensional Dirac material systems with a flat band

CZ Wang, HY Xu, YC Lai - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
The phenomenon of super scattering was previously found to arise in massless pseudospin-
1 two-dimensional Dirac material systems with a flat band. Here we report the phenomenon …

Spin-dependent edge states in two-dimensional Dirac materials with a flat band

LL Ye, CD Han, YC Lai - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
The phenomenon of spin-dependent quantum scattering in two-dimensional (2D)
pseudospin-1/2 Dirac materials leading to a relativistic quantum chimera was recently …

Deep-learning design of graphene metasurfaces for quantum control and Dirac electron holography

CD Han, LL Ye, Z Lin, V Kovanis, YC Lai - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.05975, 2024 - arxiv.org
Metasurfaces are sub-wavelength patterned layers for controlling waves in physical
systems. In optics, meta-surfaces are created by materials with different dielectric constants …

[HTML][HTML] Deep-learning design of electronic metasurfaces in graphene for quantum control and Dirac electron holography

CD Han, LL Ye, Z Lin, V Kovanis, YC Lai - APL Machine Learning, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Metasurfaces are sub-wavelength patterned layers for controlling waves in physical
systems. In optics, metasurfaces are created by materials with different dielectric constants …

Klein scattering of spin-1 Dirac-Weyl wave and localized surface plasmon

HY Xu, L Huang, YC Lai - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
Localized surface plasmon and Klein tunneling resonances are two phenomena that were
previously thought to be unrelated, where the former plays an important role in …