Bloch electrons in a magnetic field: Why does chaos send electrons the hard way?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 13, 2000, Pages

  Ketzmerick, R ^a   Kruse, K ^a   Springsguth, D ^a   Geisel, T ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON WAVES; ENERGY SPECTRUM; MODULATION STRENGTH; WAVE PACKETS;

CHAOS THEORY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HAMILTONIANS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM THEORY;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 0000001454     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.2929     Document Type: Article

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