Symmetry-Breaking and Chaos in Electron Transport in Semiconductor Superlattices
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Kirill N. Alekseev, Ethan H. Cannon, Jonathan C. McKinney, Feodor V. Kusmartsev, and D.K. Campbell Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA Department of Physical Sciences, Box 3000, University of Oulu FIN-90014, Finland Theory of Nonlinear Processes Laboratory, Kirensky Institute of Physics, Krasnoyarsk 660036, Russia Department of Physics, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK
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