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  "abstract": "An internal electronic coherence changes electrical transport only when it feeds back on the physical current. We develop a reduced description of this feedback and distinguish its exact consequences from the assumptions required for a microscopic realization. An opposite-parity two-orbital Hamiltonian identifies a current-coupled orbital force. Under an explicitly stated moment closure and collision ansatz, it yields a passive three-state response with an exponentially damped oscillatory memory. The resulting conductivity redistributes a fixed optical weight and predicts a nonmonotonic dependence of dc conduction on coherence damping at fixed remaining parameters. The orbital reduction constrains the coupling and internal frequency through a shared bare splitting, providing a test beyond unconstrained spectral fitting. A charge-conserving spatial extension couples to Maxwell equations through a positive energy balance and separates the constitutive response from longitudinal collective and transverse electromagnetic modes. We formulate complex-conductivity and transmission tests, including the limits of parameter identification over a finite bandwidth. The model supplies a conditional connection between orbital dynamics, transport memory, and electromagnetic observables; conductivity alone does not establish a uniquely quantum mechanism, and a material-specific collision calculation and closure-error assessment remain necessary.",
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  "title": "Orbital-coherence memory in electrical transport and its self-consistent Maxwell response",
  "title_text": "Orbital-coherence memory in electrical transport and its self-consistent Maxwell response",
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