Physical Review Letters -- January 5, 1998 -- Volume 80, Issue 1 pp. 49-52
The anomalously strong scarring of the electronic wave functions of quantumwells in a tilted magnetic field is shown to be due to special properties of the classical dynamics of this system. A certain subset of periodic orbits is identified which is nearly stable over a very large interval of variation of the system parameters; hence this subset exhibits strong scarring. Semiclassical arguments shed further light on why these orbits dominate the experimentally observed tunneling spectra.
KeyWords: semiconductor quantum wells; magnetic field effects; wave functions; tunnelling spectra; Poincare mapping; bifurcation; chaos
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