Abstract
Electron movement in a spatially periodic high-frequency electric field is considered. If the spatial period is small enough and the frequency is sufficiently high, the effect of this field on the charged particle is in a sense equivalent to the effect of a time-independent effective potential that is a sequence of deep dynamic quantum wells where the electrons are confined. Also, a physical model is proposed which could be described in terms of such a Hamiltonian.
- Received 5 November 1992
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.48.3499
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