Published June 18, 2025 | Version Published
Journal Article

Asymptotic Analysis for Bloch Electrons with Weyl Nodes

  • 1. ROR icon Duke University
  • 2. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 3. ROR icon Westlake University

Abstract

In this paper, we study the semiclassical behavior of Bloch electrons in the presence of Weyl nodes, which are singular points in the band structure of certain materials. We carry out asymptotic analysis and present a rigorous derivation of the semiclassical asymptotic expansion of the current of Bloch electrons with the presence of Weyl nodes. The analysis shows that the current contains two parts, one independent of the Weyl nodes and the other a contribution from the singular points. This work provides a theoretical foundation towards a rigorous justification of recent scientific discoveries in Weyl semimetals. The main innovation of this paper is a new strategy to deal with the singular points with quantitative estimates, which may have broader applications in multiscale models with singularities.

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© 2025 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Funding

The work of the second author was supported by National Science Foundation grant DMS-2205590. The work of the third author was supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China project 2021YFA1001200 and National Natural Science Foundation of China grants 12031013 and 12171013.

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Funding

National Science Foundation
DMS-2205590
National Key Research and Development Program of China
2021YFA1001200
National Natural Science Foundation of China
12031013
National Natural Science Foundation of China
12171013

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