Rabi oscillations between Bloch bands

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Zhao, XG
Georgakis, GA
Niu, Q
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[1] Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin
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10.1103/PhysRevB.54.R5235
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T [工业技术];
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We investigate a tight-binding model of double Bloch bands driven by dc-ac electric fields in the weak-coupling limit. Rabi oscillations between the Bloch bands are identified under resonant conditions, in which the quasienergy bands and fractional Wannier-Stark ladders are all revealed. Experimental conditions for the observation of the predicted effects are discussed.
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