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A numerical study of domain wall relocation during voltage switching with different ramping times is presented for weakly coupled, doped semiconductor superlattices exhibiting multistable domain formation in the first plateau of their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. L. Bonilla , R. Escobedo , G. Dell'Acqua

We describe a limiting case when nonlinear dynamics of an ac-driven semiconductor superlattice in the miniband transport regime is governed by a periodically forced and damped pendulum. We find analytically the conditions for a transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kirill N. Alekseev , Feodor V. Kusmartsev

We calculate the current density in a semiconductor superlattice with parabolic miniband under crossed non-quantizing electric and magnetic fields. The Corbino disk geometry is considered. The current-voltage curve contains oscillations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-25 G. M. Shmelev , E. M. Epshtein , M. B. Belonenko

We present measurements of low frequency charge noise and conductance drift in modulation doped GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy in which the silicon doping density has been varied from $2.4\times 10^{18}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 S. Fallahi , J. R. Nakamura , G. C. Gardner , M. M. Yannell , M. J. Manfra

We use simulations to examine hysteresis and noise in a model system that produces heterogeneous orderings including stripe and clump phases. In the presence of a disordered substrate, these heterogeneous phases exhibit 1/f$^\alpha$ noise…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , A. R. Bishop

We address the enhancement of electron drift in semiconductor superlattices of nanometre scale that occurs in combined electric and tilted magnetic fields if Bloch oscillations become resonant with cyclotron rotation in the transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. M. Soskin , I. A. Khovanov , P. V. E. McClintock

This paper summarises an investigation of the effects of low amplitude noise and periodic driving on phase space transport in 3-D Hamiltonian systems, a problem directly applicable to systems like galaxies, where such perturbations reflect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Henry E. Kandrup , Ilya V. Pogorelov , Ioannis Sideris

We study non-Gaussian out-of-equilibrium current fluctuations in a mesoscopic NSN circuit at the point of a superconducting phase transition. The setup consists of a voltage-biased thin film nanobridge superconductor (S) connected to two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-22 Dmitry Bagrets , Alex Levchenko

Noise-induced switching between coexisting metastable states occurs in a wide range of far-from-equilibrium systems including micro-mechanical oscillators, epidemiological and climate change models, and nonlinear electronic transport in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-01 Stephen W. Teitsworth , Matthew E. Olson , Yuriy Bomze

This study investigates the emergence of chaotic dynamics in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) subjected to both alternating (AC) and constant (DC) components of the interaction strength, modeled through the scattering length. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 C. Selvaraju , S. Sabari , O. T. Lekeufack , F. Kenmogne , N. Athavan

We address the increase of electron drift velocity that arises in semiconductor superlattices (SLs) subjected to constant electric and magnetic fields. It occurs if the magnetic field possesses nonzero components both along and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-14 Stanislav M. Soskin , Igor A. Khovanov , Peter V. E. McClintock

We explore the effect of noise on the ballistic graphene-based small Josephson junctions in the framework of the resistively and capacitively shunted model. We use the non-sinusoidal current-phase relation specific for graphene layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-07 Claudio Guarcello , Davide Valenti , Bernardo Spagnolo , Vincenzo Pierro , Giovanni Filatrella

We present numerical simulation results of driven vortex lattices in presence of random disorder at zero temperature. We show that the plastic dynamics is readily understood in the framework of chaos theory. Intermittency "routes to chaos"…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Olive , J. C. Soret

This work deals with chaotic quantum dot connected to two and four leads. We use standard diagrammatic procedure to integrate on the unitary group, to study the main term in the semiclassical expansion of the noise in the three pure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-22 A. L. R. Barbosa , J. G. G. S. Ramos , D. Bazeia

The field of quantum simulation, which aims at using a tunable quantum system to simulate another, has been developing fast in the past years as an alternative to the all-purpose quantum computer. In particular, the use of temporal driving…

We study nonlinear transport and non-equilibrium current noise in quasi-classical point contacts (PCs) defined in a low-density high-quality two-dimensional electron system in GaAs. At not too high bias voltages $V$ across the PC the noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-21 E. S. Tikhonov , M. Yu. Melnikov , D. V. Shovkun , L. Sorba , G. Biasiol , V. S. Khrapai

We present new results of numerical simulations for driven vortex lattices in presence of random disorder at zero temperature. We show that the plastic dynamics of vortices display dissipative chaos. Intermittency "routes to chaos" have…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Olive , J. C. Soret

The observation of the gate-controlled supercurrent (GCS) effect in superconducting nanostructures increased the hopes for realizing a superconducting equivalent of semiconductor field-effect transistors. However, recent works attribute…

We use realistic pseudopotentials and a plane-wave basis to study the electronic structure of non-periodic, three-dimensional, 2000-atom (AlAs)_n/(GaAs)_m (001) superlattices, where the individual layer thicknesses n,m = {1,2,3} are…

mtrl-th · Physics 2016-09-07 K. A. Mader , L. -W. Wang , A. Zunger

We consider a single-level quantum dot tunnel-coupled to one normal and one superconducting lead. We employ a diagrammatic real-time approach to calculate the finite-frequency current noise for subgap transport. The noise spectrum gives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-14 Stephanie Droste , Janine Splettstoesser , Michele Governale