Semiclassical wave packet dynamics in Schrödinger equations with periodic potentials

DOI10.3934/DCDSB.2012.17.759zbMATH Open1238.81120arXiv1101.3136OpenAlexW2036996841MaRDI QIDQ414731FDOQ414731

Authors: Rémi Carles, Christof Sparber 

Publication date: 11 May 2012

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider semiclassically scaled Schrodinger equations with an external potential and a highly oscillatory periodic potential. We construct asymptotic solutions in the form of semiclassical wave packets. These solutions are concentrated (both, in space and in frequency) around the effective semiclassical phase-space flow obtained by Peierl's substitution, and involve a slowly varying envelope whose dynamics is governed by a homogenized Schrodinger equation with time-dependent effective mass. The corresponding adiabatic decoupling of the slow and fast degrees of freedom is shown to be valid up to Ehrenfest time scales.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3136

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zbMATH Keywords

periodic potentialBloch bandEhrenfest timesemiclassical wave packetSchrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Theoretical approximation in context of PDEs (35A35)

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