Conductance of ballistic superlattice in transverse magnetic field

Abstract

<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-in;mso-fareast-language:en-in;mso-bidi-language:="" hi"="" lang="EN-IN">The electronic transport of the ballistic superlattice in the presence of a transverse magnetic field within the constriction has been studied, where the wells have equal length across the constriction and the barriers are arranged in a manner either periodic or quasi-periodic· The conductance exhibits strong transmission resonances which drastically affected the quantized conductance, &nbsp;plateaus of the ideal unmodulated constriction. The magnetic field produces an overall rightward shift of the conductance. When the field increases, the peaks in the group of resonances are depressed progressively in the region of a given plateau and finally disappear in a stronger magnetic field.</span>