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

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2005.10.087zbMATH Open1234.81076arXivcond-mat/0507499OpenAlexW2168843838MaRDI QIDQ973485FDOQ973485

Authors: Konstantin Y. Bliokh 

Publication date: 2 June 2010

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

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)).

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

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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)

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