title: Chiral scars in chaotic Dirac fermion systems.
abstract: Do relativistic quantum scars in classically chaotic systems possess unique features that are not shared by nonrelativistic quantum scars? We report a class of relativistic quantum scars in massless Dirac fermion systems whose phases return to the original values or acquire a 2π change only after circulating twice about some classical unstable periodic orbits. We name such scars chiral scars, the successful identification of which has been facilitated tremendously by our development of an analytic, conformal-mapping-based method to calculate an unprecedentedly large number of eigenstates with high accuracy. Our semiclassical theory indicates that the physical origin of chiral scars can be attributed to a combined effect of chirality intrinsic to massless Dirac fermions and the geometry of the underlying classical orbit.
authors: Institute of Computational Physics and Complex Systems and Key Laboratory for Magnetism and Magnetic Materials of MOE, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China.
authors: Hongya
authors: H
authors: Xu
authors: Liang
authors: L
authors: Huang
authors: Ying-Cheng
authors: YC
authors: Lai
authors: Celso
authors: C
authors: Grebogi
mesh_terms: D006108:Graphite / Q000737:chemistry*; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D011789:Quantum Theory
chemical_list: D006108:Graphite