@article{8ed275bbb0854b4fb0716ed2421151af,
title = "Does a Bloch electron in a constant electric field oscillate?",
abstract = "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.",
author = "A. Rabinovitch and J. Zak",
note = "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.",
year = "1972",
month = jul,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1016/0375-9601(72)90649-4",
language = "English",
volume = "40",
pages = "189--190",
journal = "Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics",
issn = "0375-9601",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "3",
}