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Graphene, topological insulators, and Weyl semimetals are three widely studied materials classes which possess Dirac or Weyl cones arising from either sublattice symmetry or spin-orbit coupling. In this work, we present a theory of a new…

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We study the semiclassical spectral theory of a one-dimensional Dirac operator describing waves at the interface between topologically distinct media. We derive a modified Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization condition for the squared operator via…

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In quantum mechanics, systems can be described in phase space in terms of the Wigner function and the star-product operation. Quantum characteristics, which appear in the Heisenberg picture as the Weyl's symbols of operators of canonical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 M. I. Krivoruchenko , C. Fuchs , Amand Faessler

We present a semiclassical analysis of the quantum propagator of a particle confined on one side by a steeply, monotonically rising potential. The models studied in detail have potentials proportional to $x^{\alpha}$ for $x>0$; the limit…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 F. D. Mera , S. A. Fulling , J. D. Bouas , K. Thapa

In this paper we continue the study (initiated in arXiv:2003.13584) of the semiclassical behavior of the scattering data of a non-self-adjoint Dirac operator with a real, positive, fairly smooth but not necessarily analytic potential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-06-15 Nicholas Hatzizisis , Spyridon Kamvissis

Wentzel, Kramers, Brillouin (WKB) approximation for fractional systems is investigated in this paper using the fractional calculus. In the fractional case the wave function is constructed such that the phase factor is the same as the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eqab M. Rabei , Ibrahim M. A. Altarazi , Sami I. Muslih , Dumitru Baleanu

$\alpha$-Sn is an elemental topological material, whose topological phases can be tuned by strain and magnetic field. Such tunability offers a substantial potential for topological electronics. However, InSb substrates, commonly used to…

Due to the chiral nature of the Dirac equation, overlying of an electrical superlattice (SL) can open new Dirac points on the Fermi-surface of the energy spectrum. These lead to novel low-excitation physical phenomena. A typical example for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-28 Juergen Dietel , Hagen Kleinert

We propose an extension of Wenzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation for solving the Schr\"odinger equation. A set of coupled differential equations is obtained by considering an ansatz of the wave function with an auxiliary condition on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yu-An Tsai , Sheng D. Chao

We present a new code to evaluate thermoelectric and electronic transport properties of extended systems with a maximally-localized Wannier function basis set. The semiclassical Boltzmann transport equations for the homogeneous infinite…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-22 Giovanni Pizzi , Dmitri Volja , Boris Kozinsky , Marco Fornari , Nicola Marzari

We analyze the semiclassical evolution of Gaussian wavepackets in chaotic systems. We prove that after some short time a Gaussian wavepacket becomes a primitive WKB state. From then on, the state can be propagated using the standard TDWKB…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Raphael N. P. Maia , Fernando Nicacio , Raul O. Vallejos , Fabricio Toscano

Topological features of possible three-dimensional (3D) states in \alpha-type layered organic conductors are investigated within a unified framework based on Wannier charge centers (WCCs), aiming to identify their actual topological states.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Toshihito Osada

We propose a Schr\"odinger equation of arbitrary order for modeling charge transport in semiconductors operating in the ballistic regime. This formulation incorporates non-parabolic effects through the Kane dispersion relation, thereby…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Giulia Elena Aliffi , Giovanni Nastasi , Vittorio Romano

Higher-order WKB methods are used to investigate the border between the solvable and insolvable portions of the spectrum of quasi-exactly solvable quantum-mechanical potentials. The analysis reveals scaling and factorization properties that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 C. M. Bender , G. Dunne , M. Moshe

We use Boltzmann theory to study the semi-classical dynamics of electrons in a two-dimensional (2D) tilted Dirac material in which the tilt varies in space. The spatial variation of the tilt parameter induces a non-trivial spacetime…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Abolfath Hosseinzadeh , Seyed Akbar Jafari

We test the ability of semiclassical theory to describe quantitatively the revival of quantum wavepackets --a long time phenomena-- in the one dimensional quartic oscillator (a Kerr type Hamiltonian). Two semiclassical theories are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Toscano , R. O. Vallejos , D. A. Wisniacki

Quantized systems whose underlying classical dynamics possess an elaborate mixture of regular and chaotic motion can exhibit rather subtle long-time quantum transport phenomena. In a short wavelength regime where semiclassical theories are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-05-29 Christoph-Marian Goletz , Frank Grossmann , Steven Tomsovic

We theoretically investigate the thermoelectric properties of semiconducting (gapped) materials by varying the degrees of polynomials in their energy dispersion relations, in which either the valence or conduction energy dispersion depends…

A fourth-order Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the description of charge transport in semiconductors in the ballistic regime is proposed with the inclusion of non-parabolic effects in the dispersion relation in order to go beyond the simple…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Giulia Elena Aliffi , Giovanni Nastasi , Vittorio Romano

We explore the application of the exact Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) analysis to two-level Floquet systems and establish a systematic procedure to calculate the quasi-energy and Floquet effective Hamiltonian. We show that, in the…

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