Calculation of Wannier-Bloch and Wannier-Stark states

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作者
Glück, M
Kolovsky, AR
Korsch, HJ
Moiseyev, N
机构
[1] Univ Kaiserslautern, Fachbereich Phys, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany
[2] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Chem, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel
[3] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Minerva Ctr Non Linear Phys Complex Syst, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel
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10.1007/s100530050205
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
The paper discusses the metastable states of a quantum particle in a periodic potential under a constant force (the model of a crystal electron in a homogeneous electric field), which are known as the Wannier-Stark ladder of resonances. An efficient procedure to find the positions and widths of resonances is suggested and illustrated by numerical calculations for a cosine potential, which are in excellent agreement with complex scaling resonance energies.
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