Photon-assisted transport in semiconductor nanostructures

By G. Platero, R. Aguado. 2003

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Abstract In this review we focus on electronic transport through semiconductor nanostructures which are driven by ac fields. Along the review we describe the available experimental information on different nanostructures, like resonant tunneling diodes, superlattices or quantum dots, together with different theoretical techniques used in the study of photon-assisted transport. These theoretical tools such as, for instance, the Floquet formalism, the nonequilibrium Green's function technique or the density matrix technique, are suitable for tackling with problems where the interplay of different aspects like nonequilibrium, nonlinearity, quantum confinement or electron–electron interactions gives rise to many intriguing new phenomena. Along the review we give many examples which demonstrate the possibility of using appropriate ac fields to control/manipulate coherent quantum states in semiconductor nanostructures.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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Spins in few-electron quantum dots (2006, background): “Furthermore, the alternating electric fields that are unavoidably also generated along with the alternating magnetic field, can kick the electron out of the dot via photon-assisted tunneling (PAT) processes (Platero and Aguado, 2004).”
Artificial Brownian motors: Controlling transport on the nanoscale (2008, background): “…mobility, which occurs via quantum tunneling events in quantum systems (Aguado and Platero, 1997; Grifoni and Hänggi, 1998; Keay et al., 1995; Platero and Aguado, 2004) and through mere nonequilibrium driven diffusive dynamics in classical systems (Eichhorn et al., 2002a,b; Kostur et al.,…”
Driven quantum transport on the nanoscale (2004, background): “From a fundamental point of view, these effects are of interest because the external fields enable selective electron excitations and allow one to study their interplay with the underlying transport mechanism.”
Non-linear dynamics of semiconductor superlattices (2005, background): “Very recently, the same authors [17] published a detailed review of photon-assisted transport in semiconductor nanostructures.”
Colloquium: Strong-field phenomena in periodic systems (2017, background): “Modern studies of the DFKE, in both theory (Jauho and Johnsen, 1996; Nordstrom et al., 1997; Otobe et al., 2016; Platero and Aguado, 2004) and experiment (Ghimire et al., 2011b; Lucchini et al., 2016; Novelli et al., 2013; Schultze et al., 2013, 2014), are focused on the subcycle control of optical…”