Semiclassical Time Evolution of the Holes from Luttinger Hamiltonian
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We study the semi-classical motion of holes by exact numerical solution of the Luttinger model. The trajectories obtained for the heavy and light holes agree well with the higher order corrections to the abelian and the non-abelian adiabatic theories in Ref. [1] [S. Murakami et al., Science 301, 1378(2003)], respectively. It is found that the hole trajectories contain rapid oscillations reminiscent of the "Zitterbewegung" of relativistic electrons. We also comment on the non-conservation of helicity of the light holes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0410420,
title = {Semiclassical Time Evolution of the Holes from Luttinger Hamiltonian},
author = {Z. F. Jiang and R. D. Li and Shou-Cheng Zhang and W. M. Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0410420},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 5 fugures