QUANTIZED TRANSMISSION OF A SADDLE-POINT CONSTRICTION

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作者
BUTTIKER, M
机构
[1] IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1990年 / 41卷 / 11期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.41.7906
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
Conductance quantization in the absence and in the presence of a magnetic field is discussed for a split-gate constriction with a local potential at the bottleneck forming a saddle. Simple criteria for the occurrence of conductance steps and the accuracy of quantization are given in terms of the curvatures of the saddle. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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页码:7906 / 7909
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