Conductance quantization and backscattering
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Conductance quantization and backscattering.
The transmission behavior of a quantum point contact in a magnetic field is calculated, exhibiting in detail the influence of intersubband scattering. In contrast to the commonly known reduction of backscattering by a magnetic field, it is shown here that a weak field can cause increased backscattering. Nevertheless, the present results serve to illustrate that backscattering can occur without ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review B
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0163-1829,1095-3795
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.45.14225