Quantum phonon fluctuations in mesoscopic dimerized systems

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1954-1962

  Bâldea, Ioan ^a,b   Köppel, Horst ^a   Cederbaum, Lorenz S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Institute of Gravity and Space Sciences   (Romania)

Author keywords

Adiabatic approximations; Mesoscopic systems; Peierls transition; Phonons; Quantum fluctuations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040220176     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.68.1954     Document Type: Article

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