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ITM Web Conf.
Volume 9, 2017
The 2016 International Conference Applied Mathematics, Computational Science and Systems Engineering
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Article Number | 01008 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Applied Mathematics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/itmconf/20170901008 | |
Published online | 09 January 2017 |
Model of tunnelling through periodic array of quantum dots
ITMO University, Department of Higher Mathematics, 197101, St. Petersburg, Russia
* Corresponding author: popov1955@gmail.com
Several explicitly solvable models of electron tunnelling in a system of single and double two-dimensional periodic arrays of quantum dots with two laterally coupled leads in a homogeneous magnetic field are constructed. First, a model of single layer formed by periodic array of zero-range potentials is described. The Landau operator (the Schrodinger operator with a magnetic field) with point-like interactions is the system Hamiltonian. We deal with two types of the layer lattices: square and honeycomb. The periodicity condition gives one an invariance property for the Hamiltonian in respect to magnetic translations group. The consideration of double quantum layer reduces to the replacement of the basic cell for the single layer by a cell including centers of different layers. Two variants of themodel for the double layer are suggested: with direct tunneling between the layers and with the connecting channels (segments in the model) between the layers. The theory of self-adjoint extensions of symmetric operators is a mathematical background of the model. The third stage of the construction is the description of leads connection. It is made by the operator extensions theory method too. Electron tunneling from input lead to the output lead through the double quantum layer is described. Energy ranges with extremely small (practically, zero) transmission were found. Dependencies of the transmission coefficient (particularly, “zero transmission bands” positions) on the magnetic field, the energy of electron and the distance between layers are investigated. The results are compared with the corresponding single-layer transmission.
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