Calculation of quantum tunneling for a spatially extended defect: The dislocation kink in copper has a low effective mass

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1546-1549

  Vegge, Tejs ^a   Sethna, James P ^b   Cheong, Siew Ann ^b   Jacobsen, K W ^a   Myers, Christopher R ^c   Ralph, Daniel C ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COPPER; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); ELECTRON TUNNELING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

DISLOCATION KINKS; QUANTUM TUNNELING;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0034833211     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1546     Document Type: Article

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