Effects of stochastic webs on chaotic electron transport in semiconductor superlattices.
We investigate chaotic electron transport in the lowest miniband of a semiconductor superlattice with a tilted magnetic field. This experimentally accessible non-Kolmogorov-Arnol'd-Moser system involves only stationary electric and magnetic fields, but is dynamically equivalent to a time-dependent kicked harmonic oscillator. The onset of chaos strongly delocalizes the electron orbits, thus raising the electrical conductivity. When the cyclotron and Bloch frequencies are commensurate, the phase space is threaded by a stochastic web, which produces a further resonant increase in the conductivity.
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom.
Krokhin
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Tench
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Bujkiewicz
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Wilkinson
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Sheard
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