Dynamics of tilted superlattices with time-dependent impurity

  • W. X. Yan*
  • , B. H. Xie
  • , Shuo Jin
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The influence of time-dependent impurity on the electronic and transport properties of the tilted superlattices modeled by the tight-binding Hamiltonian is investigated. The quasienergies of the system are calculated in two methods: exact diagonalization and Floquet replica technique, the subtle effects of the impurity on the dynamics of the system are discussed in detail. Through a perturbative analysis in terms of the inverse of the time-dependent impurity frequency, we obtain the time-independent effective Hamiltonian, whose reliability and physical implication are discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)243-248
Number of pages6
JournalPhysics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
Volume369
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 17 Sep 2007

Keywords

  • Density of state
  • Floquet replica
  • Quasienergy
  • Wannier-Stark ladders

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