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A wide range of disordered materials contain electronic states that are spatially well localized. In this work, we investigated the electrical response of such systems in non-equilibrium conditions to external electromagnetic field. We…
We show that, for some semiconductor devices and physical experiments, processes which scatter electrons {\em into} a state $|{\bf k}\rangle$ can contribute strongly to the decay of a nonequilibrium electron occupation of $|{\bf k}\rangle$.…
We present a method to analyze the results of first-principles based calculations of electronic currents including inelastic electron-phonon effects. This method allows us to determine the electronic and vibrational symmeties in play, and…