Field Induced Positional Shift of Bloch Electrons and Its Dynamical Implications
Abstract
We derive the field correction to the Berry curvature of Bloch electrons, which can be traced back to a positional shift due to the interband mixing induced by external electromagnetic fields. The resulting semiclassical dynamics is accurate to second order in the fields, in the same form as before, provided that the wave packet energy is derived up to the same order. As applications, we discuss the orbital magnetoelectric polarizability and predict nonlinear anomalous Hall effects.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- April 2014
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1402.2538
- Bibcode:
- 2014PhRvL.112p6601G
- Keywords:
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- 72.15.-v;
- 72.10.Bg;
- 73.43.-f;
- 85.75.-d;
- Electronic conduction in metals and alloys;
- General formulation of transport theory;
- Quantum Hall effects;
- Magnetoelectronics;
- spintronics: devices exploiting spin polarized transport or integrated magnetic fields;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
- E-Print:
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 112, 166601 (2014)