Breakdown of an electric-field driven system: A mapping to a quantum walk

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Oka, Takashi ^a   Konno, Norio ^b   Arita, Ryotaro ^a,c   Aoki, Hideo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC ENERGY LEVELS; ANDERSON LOCALIZATION; LANDAU-ZENER TRANSITIONS; QUANTUM WALKS;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FLUXES; GROUND STATE; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 18044370666     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.100602     Document Type: Article

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