Acoustoelectric current and pumping in a ballistic quantum point contact

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2000-02-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0002187v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

4 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.634

The acoustoelectric current induced by a surface acoustic wave (SAW) in a ballistic quantum point contact is considered using a quantum approach. We find that the current is of the "pumping" type and is not related to drag, i.e. to the momentum transfer from the wave to the electron gas. At gate voltages corresponding to the plateaus of the quantized conductance the current is small. It is peaked at the conductance step voltages. The peak current oscillates and decays with increasing SAW wavenumber for short wavelengths. These results contradict previous calculations, based on the classical Boltzmann equation.

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