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Quantum chaos in Aharonov-Bohm oscillations

NM (United States) Los Alamos National Lab., G Berman, D Campbell, E Bulgakov, Ilya V. Krive

1995

Abstract

Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in a mesoscopic ballistic ring are considered under the influence of a resonant magnetic field with one and two frequencies. The authors investigate the oscillations of the time-averaged electron energy at zero temperature in the regime of an isolated quantum nonlinear resonance and at the transition to quantum chaos, when two quantum nonlinear resonances overlap. It is shown that the time-averaged energy exhibits resonant behavior as a function of the magnetic flux, and has a ``staircase`` dependence on the amplitude of the external field. The delocalization of the quasi-energy eigenfunctions is analyzed.

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