Wigner measures and effective mass theorems

Fabricio Macià (1) , Victor Chabu (2) , Clotilde Fermanian-Kammerer (2)

1 UPM - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2 LAMA - Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Mathématiques Appliquées

We study a semi-classical Schrödinger equation which describes the dynamics of an electron in a crystal in the presence of impurities. It is well-known that under suitable assumptions on the initial data, the wave function can be approximated in the semi-classical limit by the solution of a simpler equation, the effective mass equation. Using Floquet-Bloch decomposition and with a non-degeneracy condition on the critical points of the Bloch bands, as it is classical in this subject, we establish effective mass equations for more general initial data. Then, when the critical points are degenerated (which may occur in dimension strictly larger than one), we prove that a similar analysis can be performed, leading to a new type of effective mass equations which are operator-valued and of Heisenberg form. Our analysis relies on Wigner measure theory and, more precisely, to its applications to the analysis of dispersion effects.

Mots clés: effective mass theory; two- microlocal measures; semi-classical analysis on manifolds; Bloch modes; Wigner measures

Domaines: Equations aux dérivées partielles [math.AP]; Physique mathématique [math-ph]

Fabricio Macià, Victor Chabu, Clotilde Fermanian-Kammerer. Wigner measures and effective mass theorems. 2018. ⟨hal-01736427v2⟩