Abstract

In the presence of a homogeneous electric field, $\overrightarrow{F}$, each Bloch state in a crystal changes quasimomentum according to the so-called acceleration theorem Thus, in the absence of interband tunneling and scattering processes, each Bloch state moves at a constant velocity in k-space and executes a periodic motion in the reduced zone scheme by undergoing a Bragg reflection between each two traversals of the Brillouin zone.

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