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Dynamic localization versus photon-assisted transport in semiconductor superlattices driven by dc-ac fields 8 9 9 1 W.-X. Yan1,2 , S.-Q. Bao1,3 , and X.-G. Zhao1,2,3 n a 1 CCAST (World Laboratory) P.O. Box 8730, Beijing 100080, China J 3 2Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academia Sinica, P.O. Box 2735, Beijing 100080, China ] l 3 Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, l a h P.O. Box 8009, Beijing 100088, China - s e m t. Abstract a m d- Via the numerical analysis on the intraband dynamics of optically excited n semiconductor superlattices, we find that time-integrated squared THz emis- o c sion signals can be used for probing both dynamic localization and multi- [ photon resonance in the coherent regime. Competition effect between dy- 1 namic localization and photon-assisted transport has also been discussed. v 2 PACS numbers: 78.47.+p, 42.50.Md, 73.20.Dx, 78.20.Jq 1 0 1 0 8 9 / t a m - d n o c : v i X r a Typeset using REVT X E 1 Recently, semiconductor superlattices (SL) driven by external electric fields have been a subject of intensive investigations both theoretically and experimentally. The most signif- icant example is Bloch oscillation (BO) which was theoretically predicted many years ago and experimentally demonstrated recently in SL driven by an uniform electric field. While, in the regime of tight-binding