Modulation of the Shubnikov-de Haas Oscillation in Unidirectional Lateral Superlattices
arXiv:0801.2492 · doi:10.1143/JPSJ.77.054709
Abstract
The amplitude and phase of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations have been analyzed in detail for two-dimensional electron gases subjected to a weak unidirectional periodic potential modulation. The amplitude is suppressed, accompanied by inversion of the phase, at the maximum bandwidth conditions at low magnetic fields. The suppression is gradually taken over by the enhancement with the increase of the magnetic fields. The suppression and the enhancement are attributable to the collisional and the diffusion contribution of the modulated potential to the conductivity, respectively, the former (the latter) being dominant at low (high) magnetic fields. A theoretical calculation that takes the two types of contributions into account shows semi-quantitative agreement with experimental traces.
10 pages, 8 figures; typos corrected
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