Wave-packet dynamics in slowly perturbed crystals: gradient corrections and berry-phase effects

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 14915-14925

  Sundaram, Ganesh ^a   Niu, Qian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 0000952833     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.14915     Document Type: Article

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