Quantum-Classical Transitions in Lifshitz Tails with Magnetic Fields

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Leschke, Hajo ^a   Warzel, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; GROUND STATE; KINETIC ENERGY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; VECTORS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

LIFSHITZ MODEL; QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 1842505118     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.086402     Document Type: Article

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