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Fewer operators are more fundamental than the position operator in a crystal. But since it is not translationally invariant in crystal momentum representation (CMR), how to properly represent it is nontrivial. Over half a century, various…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-06 M. S. Si , G. P. Zhang

We study the dynamics of electrons in crystalline solids in the presence of inhomogeneous external electric and magnetic fields. We present a manifestly gauge-invariant operator-based approach without relying on a semiclassical wavepacket…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Chen Xu , Andreas Haller , Suraj Hegde , Tobias Meng , Thomas L. Schmidt

In this paper we review some known results on the motion of Bloch Oscillators in the crystal momentum representation. We emphasize that the acceleration theorem, as usually stated by most of the authors, is incomplete, but in the case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vincenzo Grecchi , Andrea Sacchetti

Starting from the formal expressions of the hydrodynamical (or ``local'') quantities employed in the applications of Clifford Algebras to quantum mechanics, we introduce --in terms of the ordinary tensorial framework-- a new definition for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Giovanni Salesi , Erasmo Recami

The equations of motion for the position and gauge invariant crystal momentum are considered for multiband wave packets of Bloch electrons. For a localized packet in a subset of bands well-separated from the rest of the band structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Troy Stedman , Carsten Timm , Lilia M. Woods

We investigate the dynamics of Bloch electrons using a density operator method and connect this approach with previous theories based on wave packets. We study non-interacting systems with negligible disorder and strong spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dimitrie Culcer , Qian Niu

We tested in the framework of quantum mechanics the consequences of a noncommutative (NC from now on) coordinates. We restricted ourselves to 3D rotationally invariant NC configuration spaces with dynamics specified by the Hamiltonian H =…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Samuel Kovacik , Peter Presnajder

In solid state physics, electronic properties of crystalline materials are often inferred from the spectrum of periodic Schr\"odinger operators. As a consequence of Bloch's theorem, the numerical computation of electronic quantities of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Eric Cancès , Muhammad Hassan , Laurent Vidal

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 importance of simple geometrical invariants, such as the Berry curvature and quantum metric, constructed from the Bloch states of a crystal has become well-established over four decades of research. More complex aspects of geometry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-07 Johannes Mitscherling , Alexander Avdoshkin , Joel E. Moore

The Berry connection encodes the momentum-space geometry of occupied Bloch states in gapped insulators and plays a central role in topological materials. While gauge-invariant quantities can be evaluated from overlap matrices between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Trey Cole , David Vanderbilt

We study an analogous Bloch sphere representation of higher-level quantum systems using the Heisenberg-Weyl operator basis. We introduce a parametrization method that will allow us to identify a real-valued Bloch vector for an arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Gautam Sharma , Sibasish Ghosh , Sk Sazim

We use polarization operators known from quantum theory of angular momentum to expand the $N \times N$ dimensional density operators. Thereby, we construct generalized Bloch vectors representing density matrices. We study their properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanislaw Kryszewski , Mateusz Zachcial

We introduce and analyze a **memory-weighted velocity operator** \(\mathscr{V}_{\alpha,\beta}\) as a mathematical framework for describing rates of change in systems with time-varying, power-law memory. The operator employs two independent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Jiahao Jiang

We present a comprehensive analytical study that extends the conventional formulation of Berry curvature, highlighting its derivation in the context of problematic domains of definition of the operators. Our analysis reveals that handling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Georgios Konstantinou , Konstantinos Moulopoulos

For an arbitrary velocity field $\mathbf{v}$ defined on a finite, fixed spatial domain, we find the closest rigid-body velocity field $\mathbf{v}_{RB}$ to $\mathbf{v}$ in the $L^2$ norm. The resulting deformation velocity component,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-11 Bálint Kaszás , Tiemo Pedergnana , George Haller

In the field of orbital dynamics and orbital transport, a particularly important quantity is the so-called orbital Hall conductivity (OHC), which is expressed in terms of operators of velocity and orbital angular momentum (OAM). To overcome…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Mirco Sastges , Insu Baek , Hojun Lee , Hyun-Woo Lee , Yuriy Mokrousov , Dongwook Go

We present a rigorous derivation of the matrix elements of the orbital magnetic moment (OMM) of Bloch states. Our calculations include the Berry connection term in the k-derivatives of Bloch states, which was omitted in previous works. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Tarik P. Cysne , Ivo Souza , Tatiana G. Rappoport

A variational formulation is introduced for the Oseen equations written in terms of vor\-ti\-city and Bernoulli pressure. The velocity is fully decoupled using the momentum balance equation, and it is later recovered by a post-process. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Veronica Anaya , David Mora , Amiya K. Pani , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

Periodic structures are ubiquitous in quantum many-body systems and quantum field theories, ranging from lattice models, compact spaces, to topological phenomena. However, previous bootstrap studies encountered technical challenges even for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-04 Zhijian Huang , Wenliang Li
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