THE VELOCITY OF CURRENT FILAMENTS IN WEAK MAGNETIC-FIELDS

被引:5
作者
CHRISTEN, T
机构
[1] Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Basel, CH-4056 Basel
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ZEITSCHRIFT FUR NATURFORSCHUNG SECTION A-A JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES | 1994年 / 49卷 / 09期
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10.1515/zna-1994-0905
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O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号
070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
In the presence of a perpendicular weak magnetic field, current filaments in semiconductors can obtain a transverse drift. In the framework of a collective-coordinate ansatz, an expression for the velocity of the filament is derived for a simple type of extrinsic semiconductors. It turns out that the motion is caused by the coupling of the non-uniform Hall angle to the translational Goldstone mode of the current filament.
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页码:847 / 850
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