Physical Quantities

$ \Psi$ ... time-dependent wave function
$ \psi$ ... time-independent wave function
$ \vec{v}_{n}$ ... electron velocity in band $ n$
$ u_{n}$ ... Bloch's envelope wave function
$ \vec{P}$ ... momentum
$ \vec{p}$ ... quasi-momentum
$ \varepsilon$ ... dielectric function
$ \boldsymbol{\varepsilon}$ ... strain tensor
$ m^{-1}$ ... inverse effective mass tensor
$ \beta_{s}$ ... inverse screening length
$ \beta $ ... the second Euler angle
$ \alpha $ ... the first Euler angle, nonparabolicity parameter
$ \gamma $ ... the third Euler angle, band-form function
$ f$ ... phase space distribution function
$ \vec{K}(t)$ ... phase space trajectory
$ S(\vec{k}^{'}, \vec{k}, \vec{r}, t)$ ... differential scattering rate from $ \vec{k}^{'}$ to $ \vec{k}$
$ \lambda(\vec{k})$ ... total scattering rate
$ \Xi$ ... deformation potentials
$ E_{f}$ ... Fermi energy
$ E_{s}$ ... static electric field
$ E_{1}$ ... perturbation of the electric field
$ f_{s}$ ... static distribution
$ f_{1}$ ... perturbation of the electronic distribution
$ Q$ ... scattering term
$ \epsilon(\vec{k})$ ... dispersion law
$ \hat{H}$ ... Hamiltonian operator
$ \mathcal{H}$ ... Hamiltonian function
$ \vec{H}$ ... external magnetic field
$ \vec{A}$ ... vector potential
$ \vec{E}$ ... external electric field
$ \vec{F}$ ... total external force
$ \sigma_{ik}$ ... stress tensor components
$ \Omega$ ... thermodynamic potential
$ \mu$ ... chemical potential, mobility
$ \omega(\vec{k})$ ... dispersion law for phonons
$ \tau$ ... relaxation time
$ f_{eq}$ ... equilibrium distribution
$ L$ ... Lagrangian function
$ \vec{u}$ ... atomic displacement
$ a_{\vec{q}}$ ... annihilation operator for a phonon with wave vector $ \vec{q}$
$ a_{\vec{q}}^{+}$ ... creation operator for a phonon with wave vector $ \vec{q}$
$ c_{\vec{k}}$ ... annihilation operator for an electron with wave vector $ \vec{k}$
$ c_{\vec{k}}^{+}$ ... creation operator for an electron with wave vector $ \vec{k}$
$ I_\mathrm{ov}$ ... overlap integral
$ u_{s}$ ... sound velocity
$ D_{A}$ ... acoustic deformation potential
$ D_{o}$ ... optical deformation potential
$ \omega_{o}$ ... optical phonon energy
$ T_{L}$ ... lattice temperature
$ \omega_{pl}$ ... plasmon frequency
$ \vec{q}_{c}$ ... cut-off wave vector
$ \mathcal{F}$ ... Fermi integrals
$ G$ ... screening function
$ \vec{b}$ ... Burger's vector

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