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Anomalous Electron Trajectory in Topological Insulators
We present a general theory about electron orbital motions in topological
insulators. An in-plane electric field drives spin-up and spin-down electrons
bending to opposite directions, and skipping orbital motions, a counterpart of
the integer quantum Hall effect, are formed near the boundary of the sample.
The accompanying Zitterbewegung can be found and controlled by tuning external
electric fields. Ultrafast flipping electron spin leads to a quantum side jump
in the topological insulator, and a snake-orbit motion in two-dimensional
electron gas with spin-orbit interactions. This feature provides a way to
control electron orbital motion by manipulating electron spin.Comment: 5 pages and 4 figures for the letter, 6 pagers for the online
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Semileptonic Decays of Meson to a P-Wave Charmonium State or
The semileptonic decays of meson to a P-wave charmonium state
or are computed. The results show that the decays
are sizable so they are accessible in Tevatron and in LHC, especially, with the
detectors LHCB and BTeV in the foreseeable future, and of them, the one to the
charmonium state potentially offers us a novel window to see the
unconfirmed particle. In addition, it is pointed out that since the two
charmonium radiative decays have sizable
branching ratios, the cascade decays of the concerned decays and the charmonium
radiative decays may affect the result of the observing the meson through
the semileptonic decays substantially.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure
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