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Pattern Competition in the Photorefractive Semiconductors

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-07 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

We analytically study the photorefractive Gunn effect in n-GaAs subjected to two external laser beams which form a moving interference pattern (MIP) in the semiconductor. When the intensity of the spatially independent part of the MIP, denoted by I0I_0, is small, the system has a periodic domain train (PDT), consistent with the results of linear stability analysis. When I0I_0 is large, the space-charge field induced by the MIP will compete with the PDT and result in complex dynamics, including driven chaos via quasiperiodic route.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0101056,
  title  = {Pattern Competition in the Photorefractive Semiconductors},
  author = {Yuo-Hsien Shiau and Chin-Kun Hu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0101056},
  year   = {2009}
}
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