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Electron-phonon scattering at the intersection of two Landau levels

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We predict a double-resonant feature in the magnetic field dependence of the phonon-mediated longitudinal conductivity σxx\sigma_{xx} of a two-subband quasi-two-dimensional electron system in a quantizing magnetic field. The two sharp peaks in σxx\sigma_{xx} appear when the energy separation between two Landau levels belonging to different size-quantization subbands is favorable for acoustic-phonon transitions. One-phonon and two-phonon mechanisms of electron conductivity are calculated and mutually compared. The phonon-mediated interaction between the intersecting Landau levels is considered and no avoided crossing is found at thermal equilibrium.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0202179,
  title  = {Electron-phonon scattering at the intersection of two Landau levels},
  author = {V. N. Golovach and M. E. Portnoi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0202179},
  year   = {2007}
}

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13 pages, 8 figures