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Wave-packet dynamics in slowly perturbed crystals: Gradient corrections and Berry-phase effects
We present a unified theory for wave-packet dynamics of electrons in crystals subject to perturbations varying slowly in space and time. We derive the wave-packet energy up to the first-order gradient correction and obtain all kinds of Berry phase terms for the semiclassical dynamics and the quantization rule. For electromagnetic …