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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 derive the semiclassical Bloch dynamics with the second-order Berry phase correction in the presence of the slow-varying scalar potential as perturbation. Our mathematical derivation is based on a two-scale WKB asymptotic analysis. For a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-15 Jianfeng Lu , Zihang Zhang , Zhennan Zhou

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

We apply the Wigner function formalism to derive drift-diffusion transport equations for spin-polarized electrons in a III-V semiconductor single quantum well. Electron spin dynamics is controlled by the linear in momentum spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Semion Saikin

We investigate Bloch oscillations of wave packets in monolayer phosphorene with broken inversion symmetry. We find that the real space trajectories, Berry and group velocities of Bloch electron undergo Bloch oscillations in the system. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Abdullah Yar , Rifat Sultana

We consider the impact of Berry phase on the Wigner crystal (WC) state of a two-dimensional electron system. We consider first a model of Bernal bilayer graphene with a perpendicular displacement field, and we show that Berry curvature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-23 Sandeep Joy , Leonid Levitov , Brian Skinner

We show that topological transitions in electronic spin transport are feasible by a controlled manipulation of spin-guiding fields. The transitions are determined by the topology of the fields texture through an effective Berry phase…

Motivated by a recent proposal on the possibility of observing a monopole in the band structure, and by an increasing interest on the role of Berry phase in spintronics, we studied the adiabatic motion of a wave packet of Bloch functions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-05 Ryuichi Shindou , Ken-Ichiro Imura

Rotating photon gas exhibits a chirality separation along the angular velocity which is manifested through a generation of helicity and zilch currents. In this paper we study this system using the corresponding Wigner function and construct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Xu-Guang Huang , Pavel Mitkin , Andrey V. Sadofyev , Enrico Speranza

We consider a two dimensional semiconductor with carriers subject to spin-orbit interactions and scattered by randomly distributed magnetic impurities. We solve the time-dependent Schroedinger equation to investigate the relationship…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 T. L. van den Berg , A. Verga

We study spin parity effects and the quantum propagation of solitons (Bloch walls) in quasi-one dimensional ferromagnets. Within a coherent state path integral approach we derive a quantum field theory for nonuniform spin configurations.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Hans-Benjamin Braun , Daniel Loss

We consider the adiabatic evolution of the Dirac equation in order to compute its Berry curvature in momentum space. It is found that the position operator acquires an anomalous contribution due to the non Abelian Berry gauge connection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 Alain Bérard , Herve Mohrbach

Transport due to electrons in ultra-clean two dimensional systems can be hydrodynamic in nature with the momentum of the electrons being conserved in the bulk. This hydrodynamic behavior coupled with effects of Berry curvature arising from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-24 Anubhav Srivastava , Subroto Mukerjee

Geometric analogs of Bloch oscillations studied so far have relied on Berry curvature. We show that a weakly inhomogeneous electric field adds a distinct quantum-metric term to semiclassical wavepacket dynamics, generating an oscillatory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 M. Maneesh Kumar , Md Kaif Faiyaz , Sayan Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

We derive the field correction to the Berry curvature of Bloch electrons, which can be traced back to a positional shift due to the interband mixing induced by external electromagnetic fields. The resulting semiclassical dynamics is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yang Gao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Qian Niu

Semiclassical dynamics of Bloch electrons in a crystal under slowly varying deformation is developed in the geometric language of a lattice bundle. Berry curvatures and gradients of energy are introduced in terms of lattice covariant…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-03 Liang Dong , Qian Niu

To give a general description of the influences of electric fields or currents on magnetization dynamics, we developed a semiclassical theory for the magnetization implicitly coupled to electronic degrees of freedom. In the absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Bangguo Xiong , Hua Chen , Xiao Li , Qian Niu

We calculate the atomic (spin) Wigner function for the single mode Dicke model in the regime of large number of two-level atoms. The dynamics of this quasi-probability function on the Bloch sphere allows us to visualize the consequences of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Sanz , K. Furuya

We have derived a new set of semiclassical equations for electrons in magnetic Bloch bands. The velocity and energy of magnetic Bloch electrons are found to be modified by the Berry phase and magnetization. This semiclassical approach is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. C. Chang , Q. Niu

Liouville's theorem on the conservation of phase space volume is violated by Berry phase in the semiclassical dynamics of Bloch electrons. This leads to a modification of the phase space density of states, whose significance is discussed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Di Xiao , Junren Shi , Qian Niu
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