Huygens’ principle and Dirac-Weyl equation

Anno: 2017

Autori: Pascazio S., Pepe FV., Perez-Pardo JM.

Affiliazione autori: Univ Bari, Dipartimento Fis, I-70126 Bari, Italy; Univ Bari, MECENAS, I-70126 Bari, Italy; INFN, Sez Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy; CNR, INO, I-50125 Florence, Italy; Museo Stor Fis, I-00184 Rome, Italy; Ctr Studi & Ric Enrico Fermi, I-00184 Rome, Italy; Univ Carlos III Madrid, Madrid 28911, Spain.

Abstract: We investigate the validity of Huygens’ principle for forward propagation in the massless Dirac-Weyl equation. The principle holds for odd space dimension n, while it is invalid for even n. We explicitly solve the cases n = 1, 2 and 3 and discuss generic n. We compare with the massless Klein-Gordon equation and comment on possible generalizations and applications.

Giornale/Rivista: EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL PLUS

Volume: 132 (6)      Da Pagina: 287-1  A: 287-7

Maggiori informazioni: We thank A. Zampini for interesting discussions. FVP and SP are partly supported by INFN through the projects PICS and QUANTUM. JMPP is partly supported by the Spanish MINECO grant MTM2014-54692-P and QUITEMAD+, S2013/ICE-2801.
Parole chiavi: Graphene
DOI: 10.1140/epjp/i2017-11593-6

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