Skipping and snake orbits of electrons: singularities and catastrophes
arXiv:1107.4738 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.85.155433
Abstract
Near the sample edge, or a sharp magnetic field step the drift of two-dimensional electrons in a magnetic field has the form of skipping/snake orbits. We show that families of skipping/snake orbits of electrons injected at one point inside a 2D metal generically exhibit caustics folds, cusps and cusp triplets, and, in one extreme case, a section of the batterfly bifurcation. Periodic appearance of singularities along the -interface leads to the magneto-oscillations of nonlocal conductance in multi-terminal electronic devices.
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