arXiv · 2012.03549
Effective mass theorems with Bloch modes crossings
Abstract
We study a Schr{\"o}dinger equation modeling the dynamics of an electron in a crystal in the asymptotic regime of small wavelength comparable to the characteristic scale of the crystal. Using Floquet Bloch decomposition, we obtain a description of the limit of time averaged energy densities. We make rather general assumption assuming that the initial data are uniformly bounded in a high order Sobolev spaces and that the crossings between Bloch modes are at worst conical. We show that despite the singularity they create, conical crossing do not trap the energy and do not prevent dispersion. We also investigate the interactions between modes that can occurred when there are some degenerate crossings between Bloch bands.
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Victor Chabu, Clotilde Fermanian Kammerer, Fabricio Macià. 2020-12-07. Effective mass theorems with Bloch modes crossings. https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03549
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