https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510070193
Resonance split of ballistic conductance peaks in electric and magnetic superlattices
1
Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 1129, Hefei
230031, PR China
2
Department of Physics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, PR China
Corresponding author: a zyzeng@mail.issp.ac.cn
Received:
15
February
2000
Published online: 15 August 2000
Resonant peak splitting for ballistic conductance in finite electric superlattices (ES) and magnetic superlattices (MS) was investigated theoretically. It is shown that, for electron tunneling through the ES (MS) of identical n electric (magnetic) barriers, the resonance split of the conductance peak is (n-1)-fold; while for electron tunneling through the ES (MS) made of two different barriers, one resonant window of the former splits into two subwindows, within each of which the resonance split is (m-1)-fold, where m is the number of the renormalized building blocks consisting of two different barriers of the latter.
PACS: 73.40.Gk – Tunneling / 73.61.-r – Electrical properties of specific thin films and layer structures (multilayers, superlattices, quantum wells, wires, and dots) / 03.65.Ge – Solutions of wave equations: bound states
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2000
