"sommerfeld" explores the dynamics of the degenerate electron gas in electric and magnetic fields. The animation display shows the momentum (k) space trajectories of individual electrons as well as the average crystal-momentum of the ensemble. A model is adopted which incorporates the exclusion principle into the scattering and the scattering may be chosen to be an arbitrary mixture of elastic and inelastic. The time dependence of the average wave vector is displayed graphically.
"sommerfeld" was programmed by Joerg Draeger and Dan Vernon.
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Table of contents for Chapter 7 of "Simulations for Solid State Physics