Equation 34 · Part 3 · Every Crystal Has Its Own Speed of Light
Symbol c_eff^2
What this part means
the square of ff; the including.
Its job in the formula
f is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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A crystal has a ground state and a lattice, and both pick out a rest frame: no continuous symmetry carries the crystal’s description in one inertial frame into its description in another, because the lattice Hamiltonian is manifestly not invariant under a boost at any speed, including .
The passage around this formula
A fourth fact transfers, but only with a correction the paper computes rather than sets aside. A quasiparticle wavepacket moving at speed v inside the linear window carries an internal clock — a spinor phase, a zitterbewegung oscillation — that runs slow by the familiar factor = (1 - /)^{-1/2} : 1.15 at v = 0.5\, , 2.29 at 0.9\, . That dilation is real and, in principle, measurable, but only inside a window whose edge the band’s own curvature sets. Writing the correction as a term proportional to (k/)^2 , the fractional error in stays under one percent as long as the wavepacket’s momentum sits below…
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