Multiphase semiclassical approximation of an electron in a one-dimensional crystalline lattice, II. Impurities, confinement and Bloch oscillations.

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.
Anno
2004
Autori IAC
Tipo pubblicazione
Altri Autori
Gosse L.
Editore
Elsevier [etc.]
Rivista
Journal of computational physics (Print)