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Nano-wires with surface disorder: Giant localization lengths and quantum-to-classical crossover

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-05-23 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Chaotic Dynamics

Abstract

We investigate electronic quantum transport through nano-wires with one-sided surface roughness. A magnetic field perpendicular to the scattering region is shown to lead to exponentially diverging localization lengths in the quantum-to-classical crossover regime. This effect can be quantitatively accounted for by tunneling between the regular and the chaotic components of the underlying mixed classical phase space.

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0606586,
  title  = {Nano-wires with surface disorder: Giant localization lengths and quantum-to-classical crossover},
  author = {J. Feist and A. Bäcker and R. Ketzmerick and S. Rotter and B. Huckestein and J. Burgdörfer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0606586},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures; final version (including added references)