Photon-Assisted Electron Transmission through a Quantum Point Contact


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Abstract

The theory of coherent photon-assisted electron transmission through a one-dimensional smooth barrier is successfully used to model the results of measuring the terahertz photoconductivity of a tunneling point contact in a two-dimensional electron gas. For this barrier in a deeper tunneling mode, photon steps in the curve of the transmission coefficient versus initial electron energy were found. Their position is determined by the terahertz photon energy.

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O. A. Tkachenko

Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch

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Email: vtkach@isp.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, pr. Akad. Lavrent’eva 13, Novosibirsk, 630090

D. G. Baksheev

Novosibirsk State University; Yandex company

Email: vtkach@isp.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, ul. Pirogova 2, Novosibirsk, 630090; ul. L. Tolstogo 16, Moscow, 119021

V. A. Tkachenko

Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch; Novosibirsk State University; Novosibirsk State Technical University

Email: vtkach@isp.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, pr. Akad. Lavrent’eva 13, Novosibirsk, 630090; ul. Pirogova 2, Novosibirsk, 630090; pr. Karla Marksa 20, Novosibirsk, 630073

Z. D. Kvon

Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch; Novosibirsk State University

Email: vtkach@isp.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, pr. Akad. Lavrent’eva 13, Novosibirsk, 630090; ul. Pirogova 2, Novosibirsk, 630090

A. S. Yaroshevich

Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch

Email: vtkach@isp.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, pr. Akad. Lavrent’eva 13, Novosibirsk, 630090

E. E. Rodyakina

Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch; Novosibirsk State University

Email: vtkach@isp.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, pr. Akad. Lavrent’eva 13, Novosibirsk, 630090; ul. Pirogova 2, Novosibirsk, 630090

A. V. Latyshev

Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch; Novosibirsk State University

Email: vtkach@isp.nsc.ru
Russian Federation, pr. Akad. Lavrent’eva 13, Novosibirsk, 630090; ul. Pirogova 2, Novosibirsk, 630090

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