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In this methodology focused paper we scrutinize the application of the band-coherent Boltzmann equation approach to calculating the conductivity of chiral particles. As the ideal testing ground we use the two-band kinetic Hamiltonian with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-23 Janik Kailasvuori , Bretislav Sopik , Maxim Trushin

A bootstrap procedure for constructing prediction bands for a stationary functional time series is proposed. The procedure exploits a general vector autoregressive representation of the time-reversed series of Fourier coefficients appearing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-17 Efstathios Paparoditis , Han Lin Shang

We study the band gap in some semi-conducting polymers with two models: H\"uckel molecular orbital theory and the so-called free electron model. The two models are directly related to spectral theory on combinatorial and metric graphs.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Philipp Schapotschnikow , Sven Gnutzmann

We use a semiclassical approximation to derive the partition function for an arbitrary potential in one-dimensional Quantum Statistical Mechanics, which we view as an example of finite temperature scalar Field Theory at a point. We rely on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. A. A. de Carvalho , R. M. Cavalcanti

Bloch-Boltzmann transport theory fails to describe the carrier diffusion in current crystalline organic semiconductors, where the presence of large-amplitude thermal molecular motions causes substantial dynamical disorder. The charge…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-08 S. Fratini , S. Ciuchi

We derive the semiclassical WKB quantization condition for obtaining the energy band edges of periodic potentials. The derivation is based on an approach which is much simpler than the usual method of interpolating with linear potentials in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. P. Sukhatme , M. N. Sergeenko

In the previous studies, from the Fokker-Planck equation the general spatial transport equation, which contains an infinite number of spatial derivative terms $T_n=\kappa_{nz}\partial^n{F}/ \partial{z^n}$ with $n=1, 2, 3, \cdots$, was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 J. F. Wang , G. Qin

The semi-classical Bloch-Boltzmann theory is at the heart of our understanding of conduction in solids, ranging from metals to semi-conductors. Physical systems that are beyond the range of applicability of this theory are thus of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-10 G. Trambly de Laissardière , J. P. Julien , D. Mayou

In this paper we solve the Boltzmann transport equation using AI libraries. The reason why this is attractive is because it enables one to use the highly optimised software within AI libraries, enabling one to run on different computer…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-01-26 T. R. F. Phillips , C. E. Heaney , C. Boyang , A. G. Buchan , C. C. Pain

In quantum mechanics it is often required to describe in a semiclassical approximation the motion of particles moving within a given energy band. Such a representation leads to the appearance of an analogues of fictitious forces in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-11 Eldad Bettelheim

Periodic orbit quantization requires an analytic continuation of non-convergent semiclassical trace formulae. We propose two different methods for semiclassical quantization. The first method is based upon the harmonic inversion of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Main , G. Wunner

The fractional Boltzmann equation for resonance radiation transport in plasma is proposed. We start from the standard Boltzmann equation, averaging over frequencies leads to appearance of fractional derivative. This fact is in accordance…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-08-27 Vladimir V. Uchaikin , Renat T. Sibatov

We apply the semi-classical quantum Boltzmann formalism for the computation of transport properties to multilayer graphene. We compute the electrical conductivity as well as the thermal conductivity and thermopower for Bernal-stacked…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Glenn Wagner , Dung X. Nguyen , Steven H. Simon

The authors report on modeling of transport spectroscopy in split-gate controlled quantum constrictions. A mixed momentum-coordinate representation is employed to solve a set of time-dependent Lippmann-Schwinger equations with intricate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-07 Kristinn Torfason , Chi-Shung Tang , Vidar Gudmundsson

Traditional theories of electron transport in crystals are based on the Boltzmann equation and do not capture physics arising from quantum coherence. We introduce a transport formalism based on ''orbital Wigner functions'', which accurately…

We show how to compute transport coefficients in gauge theories by considering the expansion of the Kubo formulas in terms of ladder diagrams in the imaginary time formalism. All summations over Matsubara frequencies are performed and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Manuel A. Valle Basagoiti

We propose exact results for the full counting statistics, or the scaled cumulant generating function, pertaining to the transfer of arbitrary conserved quantities across an interface in homogeneous integrable models out of equilibrium. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-22 Jason Myers , M. J. Bhaseen , Rosemary J. Harris , Benjamin Doyon

It is shown that the standard mod-$p$ valued intersection form can be used to define Boltzmann weights of subdivision invariant lattice models with gauge group $Z_{p}$. In particular, we discuss a four dimensional model which is based upon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Danny Birmingham , Mark Rakowski

I describe the lattice determination of the electrical conductivity of the quark gluon plasma. Since this is the first extraction of a transport coefficient with a degree of control over errors, I next use this to make estimates of other…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Sourendu Gupta

Transport properties of the multicomponent quantum many-body systems obeying Haldane's fractional exclusion statistics are studied in one dimension. By computing the finite-size spectrum under twisted boundary conditions, we explicitly…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Fukui , N. Kawakami