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SUBMITTER: Lebugle M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4595631 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20150922
Bloch oscillations of quantum particles manifest themselves as periodic spreading and relocalization of the associated wave functions when traversing lattice potentials subject to external gradient forces. Albeit this phenomenon is deeply rooted into the very foundations of quantum mechanics, all experimental observations so far have only contemplated dynamics of one and two particles initially prepared in separable local states. Evidently, a more general description of genuinely quantum Bloch o ...[more]