Analog of Rabi oscillations in resonant electron-ion systems

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 134, Issue 19, 2011, Pages

  Stella, Lorenzo ^a,b,d   Miranda, Rafael P ^a,b   Horsfield, Andrew P ^c   Fisher, Andrew J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON CENTRE FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL SCHEMES; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; ELECTRON IONS; ELECTRON-ION DYNAMICS; ION DYNAMICS; MANY-BODY; MODEL SYSTEM; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR; QUANTUM COHERENCE; RABI OSCILLATIONS; SCALING PROPERTIES; ULTRAFAST SPECTROSCOPY;

DISPLAY DEVICES; IONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 79957604712     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3589165     Document Type: Article

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