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Crystal momentum : ウィキペディア英語版 | Crystal momentum In solid-state physics crystal momentum or quasimomentum is a momentum-like vector associated with electrons in a crystal lattice. It is defined by the associated wave vectors of this lattice, according to : (where is the reduced Planck's constant). Like mechanical momentum, crystal momentum is frequently conserved, making it useful to physicists and materials scientists as an analytical tool. ==Lattice symmetry origins== A common method of modeling crystal structure and behavior is to view electrons as quantum mechanical particles traveling through a fixed infinite periodic potential such that : is an arbitrary lattice vector. Such a model is sensible because (a) crystal ions that actually form the lattice structure are typically on the order of tens of thousands of times more massive than electrons,〔)=e^}}}u_(}}(})=u_(}_}. While this is in fact identical to the definition one might give for regular momentum (for example, by treating the effects of the translation operator by the effects of a particle in free space〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Physics 221a class notes 4: Spatial Degrees of Freedom )〕), there are important theoretical differences. For example, while regular momentum is completely conserved, crystal momentum is only conserved to within a lattice vector, i.e., an electron can be described not only by the wave vector , but also with any other wave vector k' such that : where is an arbitrary reciprocal lattice vector.〔 This is a consequence of the fact that the lattice symmetry is discrete as opposed to continuous, and thus its associated conservation law cannot be derived using Noether's theorem.
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