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In this work, we discuss a pedagogical method in deriving the expressions for anomalous position and velocity. While we follow the steps used in optics in the derivation of the group velocity, we use Bloch wave functions instead of plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Younsik Kim , Suk Bum Chung , Changyoung Kim

The anomalous velocity term in the semiclassical model of a Bloch electron deviates the trajectory from the conventional one. When the Berry curvature (alias noncommutative parameter) is a monopole in momentum space as found recently in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-05 P. A. Horvathy

We investigate the dynamics of a wave packet in a parity-breaking one-dimensional periodic potential slowly varied in time and perturbed by a linear potential. Parity is broken by considering an asymmetric double well per unit cell. By…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-11-30 Giulio Pettini , Michele Modugno

The Berry curvature of a Bloch band can be interpreted as a local magnetic field in reciprocal space. This analogy can be extended by defining an electric field analog in reciprocal space which arises from the time-dependent Berry…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-09-12 Swati Chaudhary , Manuel Endres , Gil Refael

The anomalous velocity has been derived so far based on the single-band approximation. In this paper, the anomalous velocity is derived accounting for multiple energy bands. It is shown that when multiple energy bands are considered, the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-19 Katsuhiko Higuchi , Wakano Sakamoto , Masahiko Higuchi

Berry phases have long been known to significantly alter the properties of periodic systems, resulting in anomalous terms in the semiclassical equations of motion describing wave-packet dynamics. In non-Hermitian systems, generalizations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Bar Alon , Roni Ilan , Moshe Goldstein

Motivated by a recent proposal on the possibility of observing a monopole in the band structure, and by an increasing interest on the role of Berry phase in spintronics, we studied the adiabatic motion of a wave packet of Bloch functions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-05 Ryuichi Shindou , Ken-Ichiro Imura

We consider the relation between spin and the Berry-phase contribution to the anomalous velocity of massive and massless Dirac particles. We extend the Berry connection that depends only on the spatial components of the particle momentum to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-14 Michael Stone , Vatsal Dwivedi , Tianci Zhou

Liouville's theorem on the conservation of phase space volume is violated by Berry phase in the semiclassical dynamics of Bloch electrons. This leads to a modification of the phase space density of states, whose significance is discussed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Di Xiao , Junren Shi , Qian Niu

We study the transport of an overdamped particle adiabatically driven by an asymmetric potential which is periodic in both space and time. We develop an adiabatic perturbation theory after transforming the Fokker-Planck equation into a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu Shi , Qian Niu

Berry phases strongly affect the properties of crystalline materials, giving rise to modifications of the semiclassical equations of motion that govern wave-packet dynamics. In non-Hermitian systems, generalizations of the Berry connection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Navot Silberstein , Jan Behrends , Moshe Goldstein , Roni Ilan

Non-Hermitian materials can not only exhibit exotic energy band structures but also an anomalous velocity induced by non-Hermitian anomalous Berry connection as predicted by the semiclassical equations of motion for Bloch electrons.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-23 Jiong-Hao Wang , Yu-Liang Tao , Yong Xu

We consider two systems of wave equations whose wave-packet solutions have trajectories that are altered by the "anomalous velocity" effect of a Berry curvature. The first is the matrix Weyl equation describing cyclotron motion of a charged…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-17 Michael Stone

We consider a model of an electron in a crystal moving under the influence of an external electric field: Schr\"{o}dinger's equation with a potential which is the sum of a periodic function and a general smooth function. We identify two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Alexander B. Watson , Jianfeng Lu , Michael I. Weinstein

We report on the time-resolved detection of the anomalous velocity, constituting charge carriers moving perpendicular to an electric driving field, in undoped GaAs quantum wells. For this we optically excite the quantum wells with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 Shekhar Priyadarshi , Klaus Pierz , Mark Bieler

We study the simultaneous semi-classical and adiabatic asymptotics for a class of (weakly) nonlinear Schroedinger equations with a fast periodic potential and a slowly varying confinement potential. A rigorous two-scale WKB-analysis,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Remi Carles , Peter A. Markowich , Christof Sparber

We comment on the relation between Berry phase and quantized Hall conductivities for charge and spin currents in some Bloch states, such as Bloch electrons in the presence of electromagnetic fields and quasiparticles in the vortex states of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 Jun Goryo , Mahito Kohmoto

The canonical commutation relations in quantum mechanics are not maintained in the anomalous Hall effect described by Berry's phase in the presence of the electromagnetic vector potential. To define quantum mechanical formulation, one may…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-04 Kazuo Fujikawa , Koichiro Umetsu

We derive the semiclassical Bloch dynamics with the second-order Berry phase correction in the presence of the slow-varying scalar potential as perturbation. Our mathematical derivation is based on a two-scale WKB asymptotic analysis. For a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-15 Jianfeng Lu , Zihang Zhang , Zhennan Zhou

We describe the charge transport in ferromagnets with spin orbit coupled Bloch bands by combining the wave-packet evolution equations with the classical Boltzmann equation. This approach can be justified in the limit of smooth disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. A. Sinitsyn , Qian Niu , Jairo Sinova , K. Nomura
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