Period-doubling and Hopf bifurcations in far-infrared driven quantum well intersubband transitions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 353071-353075

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

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; DENSITY; FAR INFRARED RADIATION; FIELD STRENGTH; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HOPF BIFURCATION; LASER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OSCILLATION; PERIOD DOUBLING; PHYSICAL MODEL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM WELL INTERSUBBAND TRANSITION; RADIATION; ROTATING WAVE APPROXIMATION; SEMICONDUCTOR; SEMICONDUCTOR BLOCH EQUATION; TECHNOLOGY; TIME; TIME DEPENDENT HARTREE MODEL; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0345601987     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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