Negative hopping magnetoresistance of two-dimensional electron gas in a smooth random potential

Details Negative hopping magnetoresistance of two-dimensional electron gas in a smooth random potential Negative hopping magnetoresistance of two-dimensional electron gas in a smooth random potential

1995-05-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9505017v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

9 pages RevTex

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.128

We show that the tunnel coupling between semiclassical states localized in different minima of a smooth random potential increases when magnetic field is applied. This increase originates from the difference in gauge factors which electron wave functions belonging to different electron ``lakes'' acquire in the presence of the field. We illustrate the increase of coupling by a model calculation of tunneling through a saddle point separating two adjacent lakes. In the common case, when the barrier between two lakes is much narrower than their size, the characteristic magnetic field is determined by the area of the lakes, and thus may be quite small. The effect of the field on coupling constants leads to a negative magnetoresistance in low-temperature conduction.

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