Abstract

We present the relativistic analogue of Anderson localization in one dimension. We use Dirac equation to calculate the transmission probability for a spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particle incident upon a rectangular barrier. Using the transfer matrix formalism, we numerically compute the transmission probability for the case of a large number of identical barriers spread randomly in one dimension. The particular case when the incident particle has three component momentum and shows spin-flip phenomena is also considered. Our calculations suggest that the incident relativistic particle shows localization behaviour similar to that of Anderson localization. A number of results which are generalizations of the non-relativistic case are also obtained.

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