Wigner measures and effective mass theorems

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

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

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

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

Victor Chabu, Clotilde Fermanian-Kammerer, Fabricio Macià. Wigner measures and effective mass theorems. Annales Henri Lebesgue, 2020. ⟨hal-01736427v3⟩