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Phys. Rev. B 63, 212303 (2001) [4 pages]

Acceleration theorem for Bloch oscillators

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Vincenzo Grecchi *
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bologna, Piazza di Porta S. Donato 5, I–40127 Bologna, Italy

Andrea Sacchetti †
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213/B, I–41100 Modena, Italy

Received 14 July 2000; published 15 May 2001

In this paper, we give the Heisenberg position operator in the crystal momentum representation and we prove the acceleration theorem for Bloch oscillators. As an application, we discuss the motion of well localized states.


©2001 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v63/e212303
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.63.212303
PACS: 73.21.-b, 03.65.-w, 73.40.Gk

* Email address: Grecchi@dm.unibo.it
† Email address: Sacchetti@unimo.it

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