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The local density of states of a degenerate semiconductor is investigated at low magnetic fields. In order to realize this experiment, we designed a strongly asymmetric double-barrier heterostructure with heavily doped contacts and study…
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We consider a hole-doped semiconductor with a sharp boundary and study the boundary spin accumulation in response to a charge current. First, we solve exactly a single-particle quantum mechanics problem described by the isotropic Luttinger…
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We study the effect of open boundary condition on charge density waves (CDW). The electron density oscillates rapidly close to the boundary, and additional non-oscillating terms (~ln(r)) appear. The Friedel oscillations survive beyond the…
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