DEPINNING, DEFECT CREATION AND QUANTUM TUNNELING

被引:10
作者
CHUI, ST
机构
[1] Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark
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10.1016/0375-9601(93)90511-W
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We study a mechanism of depinning of an electron crystal via generation and separation of a dislocation pair. A depinning electric field of the same order of magnitude as the experimental result is found. This depinning electric field is smaller by three orders of magnitude than the potential barrier set by the pinning frequency. In the low impurity density limit the depinning field is proportional to the square root of the dopant density and the 1.5 power of the dislocation energy. The 1.5 power functional dependence has been observed experimentally. Our mechanism can be viewed as a convenient way to describe collective quantum many body tunnelling.
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