Quantum Mechanical Tunneling of Dislocations
- 24 March 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 22 (12), 596-597
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.22.596
Abstract
Measurements of the temperature dependence of the yield stress in tungsten crystals show a temperature-independent region, which is consistent with Gilman's theory of quantum mechanical tunneling of dislocations.Keywords
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- Escape of Dislocations from Bound States by TunnelingJournal of Applied Physics, 1968