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Electron Transport of an Impurity Quantum Wire Under THz Electromagnetic Field Illumination |
| LI Yuan1;ZHOU Guang-Hui1,2;XIAO Xian-Bo1;CHENG Fang1;LIAO Wen-Hu1 |
| 1Department of Physics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081
2International Centre for Materials Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110015 |
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LI Yuan, ZHOU Guang-Hui, XIAO Xian-Bo et al 2004 Chin. Phys. Lett. 21 2263-2266 |
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Abstract We theoretically investigate the effect of a single finite-size attractive impurity on the electron transport of a semiconductor quantum wire under the influence of a terahertz electromagnetic field illumination. In the free-particle framework, the time-dependent electronic states are obtained by introducing an unitary transformation, and the electronic transmission of the system is obtained by using the scattering matrix approach. In the case of the field frequency resonant with the lateral energy spacing of the two lowest levels, a step-like structure for the transmission probability versus the total electron energy is predicted. Furthermore, due to the interplay between the single impurity and the applied field, the transmission probability curve in the non-resonant case shows a structure of a resonance dip on the interference pattern background with certain parameters of the impurity.
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Published: 01 November 2004
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