Symmetry-beaking and chaos in electron transport in semiconductor superlattices

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(97)00260-1zbMATH Open0960.82034arXivcond-mat/0104144WikidataQ127976817 ScholiaQ127976817MaRDI QIDQ1963789FDOQ1963789

Authors: K. N. Alekseev, Ethan H. Cannon, Jonathan C. McKinney, Fedor V. Kusmartsev, David K. Campbell 

Publication date: 8 February 2000

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the motion of electrons in a single miniband of a semiconductor superlattice driven by THz electric field polarized along the growth direction. We work in the semiclassical balance-equation model, including different elastic and inelastic scattering rates, and incorporating the self-consistent electric field generated by electron motion. We explore regions of complex dynamics, which can include chaotic behaviour and symmetry-breaking. We estimate the magnitudes of dc current and dc voltage that spontaneously appear in regions of broken-symmetry for parameters characteristic of modern semiconductor superlattices. This work complements PRL 80(1998)2669 [ cond-mat/9709026 ].

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104144

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice dynamics; integrable lattice equations (37K60) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37)

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