Effects of nonlinear sweep in the Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg effect

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 1744381-17443811

  Garanin, D A ^a   Schilling, R ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

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