| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 35, Number 7, September I 1996
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 529 - 534 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic and optical properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1996-00146-1 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
Periodic conductance fluctuations and stable orbits in mesoscopic semiconductor billiards
1
Nanoelectronics Materials Laboratory, Frontier Research
Program, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-01, Japan
2
Center for Solid State Electronics Research, Arizona State University,
Tempe, AZ 85287-6206, USA
3
Department of Materials Science, Chiba University,
1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263, Japan
Received:
18
June
1996
Accepted:
11
July
1996
We investigate electron interference in strongly confined GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots, by studying the reproducible fluctuations in their low-temperature magneto-resistance. Spectral analysis of the fluctuations reveals a strong fundamental peak with well-defined harmonics, suggesting that transport can be dominated by the remnants of just a single classical orbit. The orbit is found to be relatively insensitive to changes in gate voltage or temperature, and its existence is also suggested by numerical simulations of the devices. Our results therefore demonstrate a survival of semi-classical ballistic transport that is very regular in mesoscopic devices, and so provide striking evidence that the remnants of certain classical orbits can be highly stable in the quantum environment.
PACS: 72.80.Ey – III-V and II-VI semiconductors / 05.45.+b – Theory and models of chaotic systems / 72.20.My – Galvanomagnetic and other magnetotransport effects
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