Devil's Staircase in Magnetoresistance of a Periodic Array of Scatterers
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-07 v1 Chaotic Dynamics
Abstract
The nonlinear response to an external electric field is studied for classical non-interacting charged particles under the influence of a uniform magnetic field, a periodic potential, and an effective friction force. We find numerical and analytical evidence that the ratio of transversal to longitudinal resistance forms a Devil's staircase. The staircase is attributed to the dynamical phenomenon of mode-locking.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0102532,
title = {Devil's Staircase in Magnetoresistance of a Periodic Array of Scatterers},
author = {Jan Wiersig and Kang-Hun Ahn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0102532},
year = {2009}
}
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two-column 4 pages, 5 figures