https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2012-30276-x
Regular Article
Controlling fast electron transfer at the nano-scale by solitonic excitations along crystallographic axes
1 Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense, Paseo Juan XXIII, 1, 28040 Madrid, Spain
2 Dept. of Physics, Saratov State University, Astrakhanskaya 83, 410012 Saratov, Russia
3 Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Newtonstrasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
4 Fundacion Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio, Villanueva de la Canada, 28691 Madrid, Spain
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e-mail: wernerebeling@web.de
Received: 31 March 2012
Received in final form: 8 May 2012
Published online: 29 August 2012
We present computational evidence of the possibility of fast, supersonic or subsonic, nearly loss-free transport of electrons bound to lattice solitons along crystallographic axes in two-dimensional anharmonic crystal lattices.
Key words: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
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