Gauge Fields, Mode Mixing and Local Density of States in a Quantum Point Contact

Details Gauge Fields, Mode Mixing and Local Density of States in a Quantum Point Contact Gauge Fields, Mode Mixing and Local Density of States in a Quantum Point Contact

1997-10-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9710174v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

6 pages, 2 postscript figures, submitted to Europhysics Letters, LaTeX (with EuroMacr.tex, EuroPhys.sty)

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It is shown that the elimination of the discrete transverse motion in a waveguide of arbitrary shape may be described in terms of a non-abelian gauge field for the longitudinal dynamics. This allows for an exact treatment of the scattering between different modes by eliminating the gauge field at the expense of a non-diagonal matrix of local subband energies. The method is applied to calculate the local density of states (LDOS) in a quantum point contact. Contrary to the total conductance which is well described by an adiabatic approximation, mode mixing turns out to play a crucial role for local properties like the LDOS.

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