On the Hamiltonian nature of semiclassical equations of motion in the presence of an electromagnetic field and Berry curvature

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2005.10.087MaRDI QIDQ973485zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Konstantin Y. Bliokh

Publication date 2 June 2010

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0507499

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

Abstract: We consider the semiclassical equations of motion of a particle when both an external electromagnetic field and the Berry gauge field in the momentum space are present. It is shown that these equations are Hamiltonian and relations between the canonical and covariant variables are determined through a consistent account of all components of the Berry connection. The Jacobian of the canonical-to-covariant-variables transformation describes the nonconservation of the 'naive' phase space volume in the covariant coordinates (D.Xiao, J.Shi, and Q.Niu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137204 (2005)).

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