{ "id": "cond-mat/0112419", "version": "v1", "published": "2001-12-21T20:24:11.000Z", "updated": "2001-12-21T20:24:11.000Z", "title": "Landau-Zener transitions in a linear chain", "authors": [ "V. L. Pokrovsky", "N. A. Sinitsyn" ], "comment": "3 figures", "journal": "Phys. Rev. B 65, 153105 (2002)", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.65.153105", "categories": [ "cond-mat.mes-hall" ], "abstract": "We present an exact asymptotic solution for electron transition amplitudes in an infinite linear chain driven by an external homogeneous time-dependent electric field. This solution extends the Landau-Zener theory for the case of infinite number of states in discrete spectrum. In addition to transition amplitudes we calculate an effective diffusion constant.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2001-12-21T20:24:11.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "landau-zener transitions", "external homogeneous time-dependent electric field", "infinite linear chain driven", "electron transition amplitudes", "exact asymptotic solution" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "APS", "journal": "Phys. Rev. B" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }