Two-dimensional difference Dirac operator in the strip

T. S. Tinyukova

Vestnik Udmurtskogo universiteta. Matematika, mehanika, kompʹûternye nauki, Tome 25 (2015) no. 1, pp. 93-100

Résumé

In the last decade, a new class of materials – topological insulators – is extensively studied in the physics literature. Topological insulators have remarkable physical properties, in particular, near-zero resistance, and are expected to be applied in microelectronics. Unlike conventional metals and semiconductors, an electron in topological insulators is described not by the Schrodinger operator (Hamiltonian), but by the massless Dirac operator. Such operators in quasi-one-dimensional structures (for example, strips with different boundary conditions) are very interesting from a mathematical point of view, but they are not well studied by mathematicians yet. This article discusses the Dirac Hamiltonian of a topological insulator of somewhat more general form, namely in the presence of a ferromagnetic layer. The spectrum of such an operator is described; its Green's function (the kernel of the resolvent) and (generalized) eigenfunctions are established.

Détail

Keywords: discrete difference Dirac operator, resolution, spectrum.