Fractal Conductance Fluctuations in Generic Chaotic Cavities
Condensed Matter
2009-10-28 v2 chao-dyn
Chaotic Dynamics
Abstract
It is shown that conductance fluctuations due to phase coherent ballistic transport through a chaotic cavity generically are fractals. The graph of conductance vs. externally changed parameter, e.g. magnetic field, is a fractal with dimension D=2-b/2 between 1 and 2. It is governed by the exponent b (<2) of the power law distribution P(t) ~ t^{-b} for a classically chaotic trajectory to stay in the cavity up to time t, which is typical for chaotic systems with a mixed (chaotic and regular) phase space. The phenomenon should be observable in semiconductor nanostructures and microwave billiards.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9510007,
title = {Fractal Conductance Fluctuations in Generic Chaotic Cavities},
author = {Roland Ketzmerick},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9510007},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
final version (with minor additions) to be published in Phys. Rev. B, 5 pages, postscript