Bloch Oscillations & Wannier-Stark Ladder

A wavepacket in a tilted periodic potential (lattice + DC field F) undergoes Bloch oscillations with period T_B = ℏ/(eFa). The Wannier-Stark ladder shows energy levels E_n = E₀ + neFa. Watch the wavepacket oscillate in both real space (x) and reciprocal space (k).

Real Space |ψ(x)|²
k-Space |ψ(k)|²
Wannier-Stark Spectrum
Iris Lab · Floquet-Bloch oscillations · Wannier-Stark physics