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Fractal conductance fluctuations of classical origin
H Hennig1, R Fleischmann, L Hufnagel
1Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, 37073 Göttingen, Germany.
Abstract:
In mesoscopic systems, conductance fluctuations are a sensitive probe of electron dynamics and chaotic phenomena. We show that the conductance of a purely classical chaotic system, with either fully chaotic or mixed phase space, generically exhibits fractal conductance fluctuations unrelated to quantum interference. This might explain the unexpected dependence of the fractal dimension of the conductance curves on the (quantum) phase breaking length observed in experiments on semiconductor quantum dots.
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