TY - JOUR
T1 - The Split-Operator Technique for the Study of Spinorial Wave Packet Dynamics
AU - A. Chaves, G. A. Farias, F. M. Peeters & R. Ferreira
JO - Communications in Computational Physics
VL - 3
SP - 850
EP - 866
PY - 2018
DA - 2018/04
SN - 17
DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.110914.281014a
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/10980.html
KW - 
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">The split-operator technique for wave packet propagation in quantum systems
is expanded here to the case of propagating wave functions describing Schrödinger
particles, namely, charge carriers in semiconductor nanostructures within the effective
mass approximation, in the presence of Zeeman effect, as well as of Rashba and
Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. We also demonstrate that simple modifications
to the expanded technique allow us to calculate the time evolution of wave packets
describing Dirac particles, which are relevant for the study of transport properties in
graphene.</p>