Multiphase semiclassical approximation of an electron in a one-dimensional crystalline lattice, II. Impurities, confinement and Bloch oscillations.
Academic Article
Publication Date:
2004
abstract:
We present a computational approach for the WKB approximation of the wavefunction of an electron moving in a periodic one-dimensional crystal lattice by means of a nonstrictly hyperbolic system whose flux function stems from the Bloch spectrum of the Schrodinger operator. This second part focuses on the handling of the source terms which originate from adding a slowly varying exterior potential. Physically, relevant examples are the occurrence of Bloch oscillations in case it is linear, a quadratic one modelling a confining field and the harmonic Coulomb term resulting from the inclusion of a ''donor impurity'' inside an otherwise perfectly homogeneous lattice.
Iris type:
01.01 Articolo in rivista
Keywords:
Semiclassical limit; Periodic potential; Homogenization; Vlasov equation; Nonstrictly hyperbolic systems
List of contributors:
Gosse, Laurent
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