In a series of three recent papers by Emin and Hart, it is claimed that the existence of Wannier-Stark ladders can be proved by splitting the electric-field potential into sawlike and steplike portions. It is shown in this Comment that the proofs in these three papers are incorrect.
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J. Žák (1991) studied this question.
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