Acceleration of Electrons in a Crystal Lattice
- 1 February 1940
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 57 (3) , 184-186
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.57.184
Abstract
The motion of an electron in a periodic potential field, and accelerated by a uniform field, can be obtained by treating the time-dependent Schroedinger equation. The result shows that the wave vector increases linearly with the time within the bounds of a single Brillouin zone. At the boundaries of the zones transitions to other zones may take place if the accelerating field is large enough.Keywords
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