Persistent current of relativistic electrons on a Dirac ring in presence of impurities

Sumit Ghosh, Arijit Saha

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Abstract

We study the behaviour of persistent current of relativistic electrons on a one dimensional ring in presence of attractive/repulsive scattering potentials. In particular, we investigate the persistent current in accordance with the strength as well as the number of the scattering potential. We find that in presence of single scatterer the persistent current becomes smaller in magnitude than the scattering free scenario. This behaviour is similar to the non-relativistic case. Even for a very strong scattering potential, finite amount of persistent current remains for a relativistic ring. In presence of multiple scatterer we observe that the persistent current is maximum when the scatterers are placed uniformly compared to the current averaged over random configurations. However if we increase the number of scatterers, we find that the random averaged current increases with the number of scatterers. The latter behaviour is in contrast to the non-relativistic case. © 2014 EDP Sciences, SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalThe European Physical Journal B
Volume87
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 1 2014

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: S.G. likes to acknowledge the financial support by the CSIR, India. The work of A.S. has been supported by the Swiss NSF, NCCR Nanoscience, and NCCR QSIT.

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