Periodic magnetoconductance fluctuations in triangular quantum dots in the absence of selective probing
Abstract
We have studied the magnetoconductance of quantum dots with triangular symmetry and areas down to 0.2 square microns, made in a high mobility two-dimensional electron gas embedded in a GaAs-AlGaAs heterostructure. Semiclassical simulations show that the gross features in the measured magnetoconductance are caused by ballistic effects. Below 1 K we observe a strong periodic oscillation, which may be explained in terms of the Aharanov-Bohm flux quantization through the area of a single classical periodic orbit. From a numerical and analytical analysis of possible trajectories in hard- and soft-walled potentials, we identify this periodic orbit as the enscribed triangle. Contrary to other recent experiments, this orbit is not accessible by classical processes for the incoming collimated beam.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9807208,
title = {Periodic magnetoconductance fluctuations in triangular quantum dots in the absence of selective probing},
author = {Peter Boggild and Anders Kristensen and Henrik Bruus and Stephanie M. Reimann and Poul Erik Lindelof},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9807208},
year = {2009}
}
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RevTex 8 pages, including 5 postscript figures