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We derive radiative transport equations for solutions of a Schr\"odinger equation in a periodic structure with small random inhomogeneities. We use systematically the Wigner transform and the Bloch wave expansion. The streaming part of the…

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We consider a model of an electron in a crystal moving under the influence of an external electric field: Schroedinger's equation in one spatial dimension with a potential which is the sum of a periodic function $V$ and a smooth function…

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

In this paper we study the asymptotic phase space energy distribution of solution of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a time-dependent random potential. The random potential is assumed to be with slowly decaying correlations. We show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-17 Christophe Gomez

The radiative transport equation for the Schr\"odinger equation in a periodic potential with a weak random potential in electromagnetic fields is derived using asymptotic expansion.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-27 Manabu Machida

This work considers the propagation of high-frequency waves in highly-scattering media where physical absorption of a nonlinear nature occurs. Using the classical tools of the Wigner transform and multiscale analysis, we derive semilinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Joseph Kraisler , Wei Li , Kui Ren , John C. Schotland , Yimin Zhong

The theory of Bloch electron dynamics for carriers in homogeneous electric and magnetic fields of arbitrary time dependence is developed in the framework of the Liouville equation. The Wigner distribution function (WDF) is determined from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 G. J. Iafrate , V. N. Sokolov , J. B. Krieger

We study numerically the dynamics of a one-electron wave packet in a two-dimensional random lattice with long-range correlated diagonal disorder in the presence of a uniform electric field. The time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 F. A. B. F. de Moura , M. L. Lyra , F. Dominguez-Adame , V. A. Malyshev

We give a detailed mathematical analysis of the radiative transport limit for the average phase space density of solutions of the Schroedinger equation with time dependent random potential. Our derivation is based on the construction of an…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Guillaume Bal , George Papanicolaou , Leonid Ryzhik

Starting from a general $N$-band Hamiltonian with weak spatial and temporal variations, we derive a low energy effective theory for transport within one or several overlapping bands. To this end, we use the Wigner representation that allows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 Christian Wickles , Wolfgang Belzig

In this article we study the propagation of Wigner measures linked to solutions of the Schr{\"o}dinger equation with potentials presenting conical singularities and show that they are transported by two different Hamiltonian flows, one over…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Victor Chabu

Light transport in periodic waveguides coupled to a two-level atom is investigated. By using optical Bloch equations and a photonic modal formalism, we derive semi-analytical expressions for the scattering matrix of one atom trapped in a…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-12 Xiaorun Zang , Philippe Lalanne

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 derive from first principles a one-way radiative transfer equation for the wave intensity resolved over directions (Wigner transform of the wave field) in random media. It is an initial value problem with excitation from a source which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

This paper concerns the derivation of radiative transfer equations for acoustic waves propagating in a randomly fluctuating slab (between two parallel planes) in the weak-scattering regime, and the study of boundary effects through an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Adel Messaoudi , Régis Cottereau , Christophe Gomez

This paper concerns the derivation of radiative transfer equations for acoustic waves propagating in a randomly fluctuating half-space in the weak-scattering regime, and the study of boundary effects through an asymptotic analysis of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Adel Messaoudi , Regis Cottereau , Christophe Gomez

We investigate the transport of energy, magnetization, etc. in several finite one-dimensional (1D) quantum systems only by solving the corresponding time-dependent Schroedinger equation. We explicitly renounce on any other…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robin Steinigeweg , Jochen Gemmer , Mathias Michel

Transport properties of a two-band system with spectral nodes are studied in the presence of random scattering. Starting from a Grassmann functional integral, we derive a bosonic representation that is based on random phase fluctuations.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-01-22 K. Ziegler

The nonlinear Schroedinger equation in the presence of disorder is considered. The dynamics of an initially localized wave packet is studied. A subdiffusive spreading of the wave packet is explained in the framework of a continuous time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Alexander Iomin

We study a Schr{\"o}dinger equation modeling the dynamics of an electron in a crystal in the asymptotic regime of small wavelength comparable to the characteristic scale of the crystal. Using Floquet Bloch decomposition, we obtain a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-06 Victor Chabu , Clotilde Fermanian Kammerer , Fabricio Macià

A multi-branch quantum circuit is considered from the viewpoint of coherent electron or wave transport. Starting with the closed system, we give analytical conditions for the appearance of two isolated localized states out of the energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-06 Angelo Ziletti
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