Effects of Dissipation and Noise on Chaotic Transport in Superlattices

• Authors: A. Balanov , M. Greenaway , T. Fromhold
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We study the effects of dissipation and noise on chaotic electron dynamics, which accompany charge transport in semiconductor superlattices with an applied bias voltage and a tilted magnetic field. We consider the evolution of different chaotic trajectories as decoherence increases, and show that below a critical level of the dissipation rate, dissipative chaos plays an important role in the electron transport. However, by increasing the dissipation rate above the critical level, chaotic dynamics disappear and electrons only demonstrate regular motion. We also investigate how the presence of random fluctuations affects magnetotransport in superlattices and reveal a counter-intuitive non-monotonic dependence of electron drift velocity upon the noise intensity.

Keywords

EN

73.21.Cd; 72.20.Ht; 05.45.-a

Discipline

• 05.45.-a: Nonlinear dynamics and chaos(see also section 45 Classical mechanics of discrete systems; for chaos in fluid dynamics, see 47.52.+j; for chaos in superconductivity, see 74.40.De)
• 72.20.Ht: High-field and nonlinear effects
• 73.21.Cd: Superlattices

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 116
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 733-740

Dates

published

2009-11

Contributors

author

A. Balanov

• Department of Physics, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK
• Faculty of Nonlinear Processes, Saratov State University, Astrakhanskaya, 83, Saratov, 410012, Russia
• School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK

author

M. Greenaway

• School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK

author

T. Fromhold

• School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.116.733