On the Majorana fermion subject to a linear confinement

2017/08/14 by R. F. Ribeiro, Ricardo Faria Ribeiro, K. Bakke
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Dirac fermion #Fermion #MAJORANA #Majorana equation #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Particle physics #Physics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Spectral Theory in Mathematical Physics #Subject (documents) #Theoretical physics #Topological Materials and Phenomena #cond-mat.mes-hall #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.aop.2017.08.003

published as Ann. Phys. (NY) 385, 36 (2017) · 7 pages, no figure

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Abstract

We analyse the linear confinement of a Majorana fermion in (1+1)-dimensions. We show that the Dirac equation can be solved analytically. Besides, we show that the spectrum of energy is discrete, however, the energy levels are not equally spaced.

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