phonon

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We demonstrate the quenching of the acoustic-phonon dephasing for quantum dots spectrally well separated from the band tail of the wetting layer.

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  1. noun The quantum of acoustic or vibrational energy, considered a discrete particle and used especially in mathematical models to calculate thermal and vibrational properties of solids.

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  • The widget notmart made only worked with phonon-gst as far as I know. —  KDE-Look.org Content
  • These can be regarded as density fluctuations in the phonon vacuum state. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We solve numerically a full quantum master equation for the coupled system, and use it to analyze the photon number, the cantilever's mechanical energy, the phonon probability distribution and the mechanical Wigner density, as a function of experimentally accessible control parameters. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Rotkin and his colleagues instead utilize what they call surface phonon-polariton (SPP) thermal coupling by exploiting the high level of electron scattering that occurs in non-suspended carbon nanotube transistors. —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • The gstreamer backend for phonon has proven quite buggy on my system, so I removed it and instead installed phonon-backend-xine. —  Boycott Novell - Recent changes [en]
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