Asymptotic analysis of quantum dynamics in crystals: the Bloch-Wigner transform, Bloch dynamics and Berry phase

DOI10.1007/s10255-011-0095-5zbMath1278.81084MaRDI QIDQ385173

Xu Yang, Jian-feng Lu, E. Weinan

Publication date: 2 December 2013

Published in: Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica. English Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10255-011-0095-5

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic analysis; semiclassical limit; Berry phase; Bloch dynamics; Bloch-Wigner transform

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81Q05: Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics

35Q40: PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics

81V70: Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect

81Q20: Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory

81Q70: Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory

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