TY - JOUR
T1 - Does a Bloch electron in a constant electric field oscillate?
AU - Rabinovitch, A.
AU - Zak, J.
N1 - Funding Information:
* The research reported in, this paper has been sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, by ARPA through the N.U. Materials Research Center and by the European Research Office of the U.S. Army under con-tract no. DAJA37-70-C-0542. ** Present address: Dept. of Physics, University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. ***On summer leave from the Technion-lsrael Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel.
PY - 1972/7/17
Y1 - 1972/7/17
N2 - The existence of the generally believed oscillations of a Bloch electron in a constant electric field have been reconsidered. It is shown that the proof based on Houston's function is incorrect and there is no reason to believe that the oscillations exist.
AB - The existence of the generally believed oscillations of a Bloch electron in a constant electric field have been reconsidered. It is shown that the proof based on Houston's function is incorrect and there is no reason to believe that the oscillations exist.
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U2 - 10.1016/0375-9601(72)90649-4
DO - 10.1016/0375-9601(72)90649-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0009535694
VL - 40
SP - 189
EP - 190
JO - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
SN - 0375-9601
IS - 3
ER -