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Electron localization is the tendency of an electron in a many-body system to exclude other electrons from its vicinity. Using a new natural measure of localization based on the exact manyelectron wavefunction, we find that localization can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 T. R. Durrant , M. J. P. Hodgson , J. D. Ramsden , R. W. Godby

We study coherent dynamics of tight-binding systems interacting with static and oscillating external fields. We consider Bloch oscillations and Wannier-Stark localization caused by dc fields, and compare these effects to dynamic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Martin Holthaus , Daniel W. Hone

Transport in a two-dimensional electron gas subject to an external magnetic field is analyzed in the presence of a \textit{longitudinal barrier.} We show that \textit{quantum interference of the edge states} bound by the longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. M. Kadigrobov , M. V. Fistul , K. B. Efetov

The localization of two interacting electrons in a coupled-quantum-dots semiconductor structure is demonstrated through numerical calculations of the time evolution of the two-electron wave function including the Coulomb interaction between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. I. Tamborenea , H. Metiu

We examine the spatial distribution of electrons generated by a fixed energy point source in uniform, parallel electric and magnetic fields. This problem is simple enough to permit analytic quantum and semiclassical solution, and it harbors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Bracher , Tobias Kramer , John B. Delos

Partial electron localization in a finite-size superlattice placed in an electric field is considered. The role of electric field in forming of quasilocalized states is investigated. A quantitative criterion for the degree of partial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 K. R. Vlasov , M. A. Pyataev , A. V. Shorokhov

We find a modified Bloch equation for the electronic magnetic moment when the magnetic moment explicitly contains a diamagnetic contribution (a magnetic field induced magnetic moment arising from the electronic orbital angular momentum) in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Segev , Y. B. Band

The impact of an electric field on the electron localization problem is studied within the framework of a field-theoretic formulation. The investigation shows that the impact of the electric field on the localization corrections is governed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Bleibaum , D. Belitz

Effects of the Landau diamagnetism and the Pauli paramagnetism on the longitudinal electric wave characteristics in a quantum plasma are studied. It is shown that a dispersion relation of the longitudinal wave propagating along a magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-04 Levan N. Tsintsadze

In this paper a coherent superposition of angular momentum states created by absorption of polarized light by molecules is analyzed. Attention is paid to the time evolution of wave packets representing spatial orientation of internuclear…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Auzinsh

The aim of this work is to describe the Landau levels transitions of Bloch electrons in doped graphene with an arbitrary time dependent magnetic field in the long wavelength approximation. In particular, transitions from the m Landau level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Juan Sebastián Ardenghi , Pablo Bechthold , Paula Jasen , Estela Gonzalez , Oscar Nagel

In the present work we deal with the dynamics of wave packets in a two-dimensional crystal under the action of magnetic and electric fields. The magnetic field is perpendicular to the plane and the electric field is on the plane. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. N. Nazareno , P. E. de Brito , E. S. Rodrigues

The semiclassical theory of Bloch wave packet dynamics predicts a self-rotation angular momentum in asymmetric periodic potentials, which has never been observed. We show how this is manifested in Bose-Einstein condensed atoms in optical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Roberto B. Diener , Artem M. Dudarev , Ganesh Sundaram , Qian Niu

We report results of a numerical study of non-interacting electrons moving in a random potential in two dimensions in the presence of a weak perpendicular magnetic field. We study the topological properties of the electronic eigenstates…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Kun Yang , R. N. Bhatt

The intricate relationship between electrons and the crystal lattice is a linchpin in condensed matter, traditionally described by the Fr\"ohlich model encompassing the lowest-order lattice-electron coupling. Recently developed quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-02 Yoel Zimmermann , Joonas Keski-Rahkonen , Anton M. Graf , Eric J. Heller

We investigate transport phenomena and dynamical effects in flat bands where the band dispersion plays no role. We show that wavepackets in geometrically non-trivial flat bands can display dynamics when inhomogeneous electric fields are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Jing-Xin Liu , Giandomenico Palumbo , Marco Di Liberto

We study the semiclassical dynamics of interacting electrons in a biased crystal lattice. A complex dynamical scenario emerges from the interplay between the Coulomb and the external electric fields. When the electrons are far apart, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-27 Christopher Gaul , Antonio Rodríguez , Rodrigo P. A. Lima , Francisco Domínguez-Adame

We study the localization aspects of a kicked non-interacting one-dimensional (1D) quantum system subject to either time-periodic or non-periodic pulses. These are reflected as sudden changes of the onsite energies in the lattice with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-10-04 T. Cadez , R. Mondaini , P. D. Sacramento

We develop a theory of two-dimensional Bloch-Landau-Zener (BLZ) oscillations of wavepackets in incommensurate moir\'e lattices under the influence of a weak linear gradient. Unlike periodic systems, aperiodic lattices lack translational…

This paper studies the quantum dynamics of a charged particle in a 2D square lattice, under the influence of electric and magnetic fields, the former being aligned with one of the lattice axes and the latter perpendicular to the lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. R. Kolovsky , G. Mantica