Nonlinear Effects on Quantum Interference in Electron Billiards
Abstract
Magnetoconductance fluctuations are used to study the effect of an applied bias on an electron billiard. At lower bias, nonlinear effects can be well described by electron heating alone, while at higher bias (V > 2mV, ~5% of the electron Fermi energy) non-equilibrium effects become significant. At high bias, we also observe that the spectral content of the MCF is sensitive to the nonequilibrium effects. Spectral behavior is consistent with a fractal scaling of the conductance fluctuations with magnetic field, resulting in the first observation of fractal conductance fluctuations outside of the linear regime of transport.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0512132,
title = {Nonlinear Effects on Quantum Interference in Electron Billiards},
author = {C. A. Marlow and R. P. Taylor and M. Fairbanks and H. Linke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0512132},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, To be published in a special issue of the Springer Proceedings in Physics Series as part of the proceedings of HCIS-14, Chicago, July 24-29, 2005