Quantized magnetic confinement in quantum wires
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2015-05-13 v1
Abstract
Ballistic quantum wires are exposed to longitudinal profiles of perpendicular magnetic fields composed of a spike (magnetic barrier) and a homogeneous part. An asymmetric magnetoconductance peak as a function of the homogeneous magnetic field is found, comprising quantized conductance steps in the interval where the homogeneous magnetic field and the magnetic barrier have identical polarities, and a characteristic shoulder with several resonances in the interval of opposite polarities. The observations are interpreted in terms of inhomogeneous diamagnetic shifts of the quantum wire modes leading to magnetic confinement.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0907.1802,
title = {Quantized magnetic confinement in quantum wires},
author = {A. Tarasov and S. Hugger and Hengyi Xu and M. Cerchez and T. Heinzel and I. V. Zozoulenko and U. Gasser-Szerer and D. Reuter and A. D. Wieck},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.1802},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures