Klein tunneling in deformed honeycomb lattices.
We study the scattering of waves off a potential step in deformed honeycomb lattices. For deformations below a critical value, perfect Klein tunneling is obtained; i.e., a potential step transmits waves at normal incidence with nonresonant unit-transmission probability. Beyond the critical deformation a gap forms in the spectrum, and a potential step perpendicular to the deformation direction reflects all normally incident waves, exhibiting a dramatic transition form unit transmission to total reflection. These phenomena are generic to honeycomb lattices and apply to electromagnetic waves in photonic lattices, quasiparticles in graphene, and cold atoms in optical lattices.
Bahat-Treidel
Omri
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Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel.
Peleg
Or
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Grobman
Mark
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Shapira
Nadav
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Segev
Mordechai
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Pereg-Barnea
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