Landau-Zener transitions in a linear chain Academic Article

abstract

• We present an exact asymptotic solution for electron transition amplitudes in an infinite linear chain driven by an external time-dependent electric field. This solution extends the Landau-Zener theory for the case of an infinite number of states in the discrete spectrum. In addition to the transition amplitudes we calculate the effective diffusion constant.

authors

• Pokrovsky, Valery

published proceedings

• Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

author list (cited authors)

• Pokrovsky, V. L., & Sinitsyn, N. A.

publication date

• April 2002

publisher

• American Physical Society  Publisher

keywords

• Field
• Model
• Physics
• Quantum
• Superlattices
• Wires

URI

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.65.153105

start page

• 1531051

end page

• 1531054

volume

• 65

issue

• 15