Coherent wave-packet evolution in coupled bands

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Culcer, Dimitrie ^a,b   Yao, Yugui ^a,b,c   Niu, Qian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 33644952607     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.085110     Document Type: Article

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