Fachbereich Physik, Universit?t Kaiserslautern, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany, DE Department of Chemistry and Minerva Center for Non Linear Physics of Complex Systems,
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel, IL
Abstract:
The paper discusses the metastable states of a quantum particle in a periodic potential under a constant force (the model
of a crystal electron in a homogeneous electric field), which are known as the Wannier-Stark ladder of resonances. An efficient
procedure to find the positions and widths of resonances is suggested and illustrated by numerical calculations for a cosine
potential, which are in excellent agreement with complex scaling resonance energies.
Received: 27 April 1998 / Revised: 21 July 1998 / Accepted: 3 August 1998