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Magnetic Field Induced Charge Instabilities in Weakly Coupled Superlattices

Condensed Matter 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

Using a time dependent selfconsistent model for vertical sequential tunneling,we study the appearance of charge instabilities that lead to the formation of electric field domains in a weakly coupled doped superlattice in the presence of high magnetic fields parallel to the transport direction. The interplay between the high non linearity of the system --coming from the Coulomb interaction-- and the inter-Landau-level scattering at the domain walls (regions of charge accumulation inside the superlattice) gives rise to new unstable negative differential conductance regions and extra stable branches in the sawtooth-like I-V curves.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9803039,
  title  = {Magnetic Field Induced Charge Instabilities in Weakly Coupled Superlattices},
  author = {R. Aguado and G. Platero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9803039},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 4 postscript figures