TRANSMISSION AND REFLECTION PEAKS IN BALLISTIC TRANSPORT

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PRICE, PJ
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[1] IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights
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10.1063/1.108993
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O59 [应用物理学];
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An analytical treatment of quantum ballistic transport, for electrons in nanostructures. shows that Lorentzian energy-dependence peaks of transmission probability and of reflection probability are equally inherent. For both cases the resonance is associated with a local quasilevel state, having a decay time that is related to the Lorentzian energy half-width by the Breit-Wigner formula. For a reflection resonance, the peak value of reflection probability is shown to be 1 regardless of the symmetry of the system, in contrast to the transmission resonance case.
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