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1 1 IS THERE ANY KLEIN PARADOX? LOOK AT GRAPHENE! D. Dragoman Univ. Bucharest, Physics Dept., P.O. Box MG-11, Bucharest, Romania, Abstract It is demonstrated that both transmission and reflection coefficients associated to the Klein paradox at a step barrier are positive and less than unity, so that the particle-antiparticle pair creation mechanism commonly linked to this phenomenon is unnecessary. An experimental configuration using a graphene sheet is proposed to decide between the results obtained in this paper and the common Klein paradox theory, which imply negative transmission and higherthan-unity reflection coefficients. Graphene is a solid-state testing ground for quantum electrodynamics phenomena involving massless Dirac fermions.
2 2 Introduction The Klein paradox refers to the propagation of a relativistic quantum particle described by the Dirac equation through a sufficiently high potential barrier without exponential damping. In addition, later authors have shown that the reflection coefficient at the step barrier is higher than one and the transmission coefficient is negative, phenomenon associated with creation of electron-positron pairs at the potential discontinuity. Since most of the controversies related to the Klein paradox are connected to the explanation of the seemingly unphysical negative transmission and higher-than-unity reflection coefficients, these features can be regarded as the real Klein paradox. A review of the historical development of the Klein paradox can be found in [1]. Astonishingly, when a finite-width instead of a step-like barrier is considered, the reflection and transmission coefficients become well behaved (in the sense of being positive and less than 1), in apparent disagreement with the electron-positron pair creation at the step barrier; a probable pair annihilation phenomenon at the other potential discontinuity has been imagined to account for this result [2]. It is important to emphasize that no direct experimental evidence of the Klein paradox has been found yet. However, recent results demonstrate that charge carriers in graphene layers have a massless (and hence gapless) Dirac-like dispersion relation, fact that allow solid-state testing possibilities of quantum electrodynamics phenomena, including the Klein paradox [3]. In particular, unit transmission coefficient at normal incidence on a finite-width potential barrier in graphene has been already predicted [3]. It becomes feasible therefore to test the Klein paradox at a step-like potential barrier discontinuity. Such an experiment would be expected to produce a net current flowing in an opposite direction to that of the electron current incident on the step barrier. The problem is that no source of this current, which
3 3 corresponds to electron-hole pair creation at the interface, can be identified (the corresponding source of electron-positron pair generation in quantum electrodynamics is the quantum vacuum). The possibility that graphene is not a solid-state analog of massless Dirac fermions has been ruled out by both theory [4-5] and experiments [6-8]. We are thus faced with a dilemma: either the Klein paradox does not exist or an unknown current mechanism exists in graphene that would produce apparent odd results. Disregarding the second possibility as unphysical, the aim of this paper is to show that indeed, there is no Klein paradox. More precisely, we demonstrate theoretically that the reflection and transmission coefficients of a step barrier are both positive and less than unity. The failure of previous works to arrive at this result is justified. The Klein paradox revisited The plane-wave positive- and negative-energy solutions of the relativistic time-independent Dirac equations, Ψ = exp[ iet + i x] ψ ( p) and Ψ = exp[ iet ip x] ψ ( p), + p + respectively, are four-dimensional column vectors that satisfy the equations [9]: i β + βα mψ + = 0, i β + βα + mψ = 0. (1) t t Although the form of these solutions is well known, in many textbooks and papers unintentional or typographical errors occur, so that for clarity and completeness we give here their (not normalized) expression: 1 ψ 0 + = p /( E + m), z ( px + ipy ) /( E + m) 0 1 ψ + =, ( px ipy ) /( E + m) pz /( E + m)
4 4 pz /( E m) ( px + ipy ) /( E m) ψ = 1, 0 ( px ipy ) /( E m) pz /( E m) ψ = 0. (2) 1 The, subscripts refer to states with spin-up and spin-down, respectively. Here E is the electron energy, p = ( px, py, pz ) its momentum, and the dispersion relation is 2 = p2 m 2 E +, with m the electron mass. The light velocity in vacuum is taken as c = 1. We consider in the following one-dimensional propagation, say in the z direction, and absence of spin-flipping processes, case in which the solutions of the Dirac equation take the simpler, (not normalized) spinor form p ψ ± ( p) =. (3) E m Consider now the situation depicted in Fig. 1, in which an electron is incident from the left on the step barrier. The total wavefunction in region I is a sum of the incident and reflected waves: = exp( iet)[ ψ ( p) exp( ipz) + r ( p) exp( ipz)], with 2 2) 1/ 2 Ψ I + ψ + p = ( E m. In region II, in the Klein energy interval, for which V > E + m, negativeenergy electron states are involved in the tunneling process so that the wavefunction is 0 Ψ II = exp[ i( E V0 ) t] sψ ( q) exp( iqz), with q = [( E V ) m. The normalization 2 2 1/ 2 0 ] coefficients of the wavefunction in regions I and II need not be explicitly displayed since they can be included in the coefficients r and s. Note that in region II we have considered a negative-energy electron state that propagates in the same direction as the incident positiveenergy state and have therefore taken ψ ( q) instead of ψ (q). Also note that the electron energy in region II is negative: E V 0 < 0, as it should be.
5 5 To obtain the reflection and transmission coefficients, R and T, we must impose the continuity condition at the boundary z = 0, from which it follows that 2 1 κ R =, 1+ κ 4κ T = (1 + κ ) 2 (4) with q E m ( V0 E m)( E m) κ = =. (5) p E V m ( V E + m)( E + ) 0 0 m It is easy to show that in the Klein energy interval 0 κ 1, so that 0 R, T 1 and R + T = 1. Except for the fact that under the barrier q is real, these values of R and T are typical for wavefunction refraction at a boundary and/or for tunneling processes, and do not imply exotic phenomena such as particle-antiparticle pair creation. As long as the electron energy spectrum is considered split in a positive- and a negative-energy part, separated by a forbidden region, there is no paradox! Actually, the inverse of the κ coefficient in (5), i.e. 1 / κ, equals the corresponding coefficient in the original paper of Klein, reproduced in equation (6) in [1]. It is easy to see that both reflection and transmission coefficients remain the same when κ is replaced by which means that we have recovered the original expressions of Klein without following the same line of judgment. In particular, our choice of 1 / κ, q instead of q follows from the form of the Dirac solutions and not from considerations regarding the group velocity. (Actually, this parameter, defined as v g = d( E V0) / dq or v g = de / dq, is positive for our choice of propagation direction.) Amazingly, the expression of κ in the common version of the Klein paradox, denoted here by κ ', differs from κ in (5) (or rather from 1 / κ ) by just a negative sign:
6 6 κ ' = q( E + m) /[ p( E + m V0 )]. Klein introduced this negative sign ad hoc from considerations of antiparticle propagation direction [1]. As such, this motivation was probably not convincing and later authors dropped it, with the expense of introducing particleantiparticle pair creation phenomena to account for the resulting negative transmission and the higher-than-unity reflection. This is, however, not the whole story. Several inconsistencies and mistakes in the derivation of κ ' appear in different works, so that it is difficult to get a clear idea of its proper derivation. For example, in [9], the wavefunction in region II is taken to be the positive-electron wavefunction, although negative-energy states are clearly involved. It is easy to check that (5) would be obtained if the correct wavefunction in region II is used and if the correct expressions for the four-dimensional column vectors (2) would be employed. In another cited paper, [1], although the correct spinor forms of the Dirac equations are used (see equations (9-10), without the imaginary i in the upper row), the wavefunction in region II (equation (15) in [1]) is wrong again! I assume in this last paper there is confusion between the electron energy E and its modulus ε, which prevented the use of the correct expression in the lower row of equation (15). Last, but not least, in [2] the antiparticle propagation direction is the same as here, but there is an extra minus sign in the upper row of the four-dimensional column vector under the barrier (equation [2] in this paper), which leads to the wrong expression for κ '. To avoid any problems, I have included here the correct forms of the Dirac solutions, which can be verified by any reader. I believe that the demonstration of (5) in this paper is free from ambiguities. This implies, however, that the whole literature associated to the Klein paradox, and in particular the mechanism of particle-antiparticle pair creation at the potential discontinuity is without object. Since the controversy related to the existence or not of the pair creation linked to the Klein paradox relies on minor and subtle differences in the derivation of the expressions of R
7 7 and T, it would be desirable to design experiments that would decide between the two possibilities. Such an experiment is proposed in the following section. Klein paradox in graphene As stated above, graphene is a solid-state equivalent of a system of massless Dirac fermions. The results derived in the previous section are valid for graphene if m 0. In particular, this means that the positive- and negative-energy states (corresponding in this case to electrons and holes) are no longer separated by an energy gap and therefore charge transport through a potential step occurs with no exponential damping irrespective of the energy value. This behavior is supported by the calculations in the previous section, which show that for m 0, κ 1, R 0 and T 1, i.e. the incident quantum wavefunction is totally transmitted across the step potential discontinuity. In contradistinction, if the Klein paradox theory in the common form were used, we would have κ ' 1 in the m 0 limit, which means that R and T become infinite. More precisely, their value cannot be determined since their expressions become singular. Graphene is certainly a test case for the two theories. Experimental results in favor of one or the other theories can be obtained with the configuration described in Fig. 2(a). The gate over half of the graphene sheet induces a potential barrier with a height dependent on the gate voltage V G applied through an isolating layer, while the two contacts are used to inject and collect charge carriers. To inject electrons normal to the step potential discontinuity, a bias voltage is applied between the two contacts. If the theory presented in this paper is correct, the current through the exterior circuit has a direction consistent with the voltage polarity and intensity consistent with a transmission coefficient equal to unity. For example, for a graphene sheet with a dispersion relation E = ± hk v F, where k is the electron wavevector, v F c / 300 is the Fermi velocity and the positive (negative) sign corresponds to electrons (holes), the room temperature I-V character-
8 8 ristic calculated with the Landauer formula is displayed in Fig. 2(b) with solid line for = 0.3 ev and a Fermi level corresponding to a Fermi wavelength of 50 nm. The low-voltage conductance of graphene equals the ballistic value for T = 1, of, as can be seen from the dashed line in Fig. 2(b), which represents the I-V characteristic corresponding to this conductance. 2e 2 / h If the Klein paradox theory in the common form were correct, the current through the exterior circuit would have an opposite direction to that imposed by the voltage source and an unreasonably high intensity. Although the transmission coefficient is singular (the Klein V 0 theory in the common form breaks down in the m 0 limit), and hence the I-V cannot be estimated in this case, we suspect that the measured low-voltage conductance would have a modulus much higher than 2e 2 / h. In my opinion the second scenario is impossible since it would imply the existence of a hypothetical current generation source corresponding to the electron-hole pair creation, which, however, would generate energy that cannot be associated to any known physical mechanism; it would be as if a perpetuum mobile can be created. Conclusions We have demonstrated that at particle tunneling in the Klein energy interval both transmission and reflection coefficients are positive and less than unity, so that the particle-antiparticle pair creation associated to the Klein paradox does not occur. The non-exponential damping of the incident quantum wavefunction is fully explained by the energy spectrum of the electron, which consists of positive- and negative-energy parts separated by an energy gap. Graphene, which is a solid-state testing material for quantum electrodynamics phenomena, can provide a definite answer about the true values of the transmission and reflection coefficients for the Klein paradox at a step barrier in the limit of massless Dirac fermions. In this respect, an experimental configuration has been proposed.
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10 10 Figure captions Fig. 1 Energy diagram for the step barrier case of the Klein paradox. Fig. 2 (a) Experimental configuration that can decide upon the correct formalism of the Klein paradox and (b) the I-V characteristic consistent with our treatment of the Klein paradox.
11 11 region I region II E V 0 Fig. 1
12 12 V G contact gate contact graphene substrate (a) (b) Fig. 2
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