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Geometrodynamics of electrons in a crystal under position and time dependent deformation

Materials Science 2018-10-03 v1

Abstract

Semiclassical dynamics of Bloch electrons in a crystal under slowly varying deformation is developed in the geometric language of a lattice bundle. Berry curvatures and gradients of energy are introduced in terms of lattice covariant derivatives, with the corresponding connections given by the gradient and rate of strain. A number of physical effects are discussed: an effective post-Newtonian gravity at band bottom, polarization induced by spatial gradient of strain, orbital magnetization induced by strain rate, and electron energy stress tensor.

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@article{arxiv.1802.02887,
  title  = {Geometrodynamics of electrons in a crystal under position and time dependent deformation},
  author = {Liang Dong and Qian Niu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.02887},
  year   = {2018}
}

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24 pages, 3 figures