Zitterbewegung of electronic wave packets in III-V zinc-blende semiconductor quantum wells

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 20, 2005, Pages

  Schliemann, John ^a   Loss, Daniel ^a   Westervelt, R M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MOTION; HARMONIC QUANTUM WIRE;

ELECTRON MOBILITY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; OPTIMIZATION; RESONANCE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 26944471982     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.206801     Document Type: Article

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