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Nonlinear Transport in One-Dimensional Mott Insulator in Strong Electric Fields

Takashi Oka, Ryotaro Arita, Hideo Aoki

cond-mat.str-elarXiv:cond-mat/0505028

Abstract

Time-dependent Schroedinger's equation is integrated for a one-dimensional strongly-correlated electron system driven by large electric fields. For larger electric fields, many-body Landau-Zener tunneling takes place at anti-crossings of the many-body energy levels. The nonlinear I-V characteristics as well as the time dependence of the energy expectation value are obtained. The energy of the Mott insulator in electric fields shows a saturation, which suggests a dynamical localization in energy space of many-body wave functions.

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