Bloch oscillations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1717, 1996, Pages 2295-2310

  Kurz, Heinrich ^a   Roskos, Hartmut G ^a   Dekorsy, Thomas ^a   Köhler, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

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EID: 3042925477     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1996.0101     Document Type: Article

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