Nonlinear dynamics in far-infrared driven quantum-well intersubband transitions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 1953251-19532512

  Batista, Adriano A ^a   Tamborenea, P I ^b   Birnir, Bjorn ^c   Sherwin, Mark S ^c   Citrin, D S ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c NONE

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ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ELECTRON; INFRARED RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHASE TRANSITION; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037113658     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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