Meaning of umklapp | Babel Free

Definitions

Pertaining to the transformation of a wave vector to another Brillouin zone as a result of a scattering process.

not-comparable

Examples

“They denoted this surface as the umklapp surface because of the importance of (n, n) umklapp scattering across this surface that occurs in the AF and the d-wave pairing channels.”

“It implies that our model is dual to a doped Mott system in one dimension where umklapp scattering is frozen at zero temperature.”

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