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Emergence of domains and nonlinear transport in the zero-resistance state
I A Dmitriev1, M Khodas, A D Mirlin
1Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany and Institut für Theorie der Kondensierten Materie and DFG Center for Functional Nanostructures, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany and Institut für Nanotechnologie, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany and Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia.
Abstract:
We study transport in the domain state, the so-called zero-resistance state, that emerges in a two-dimensional electron system in which the combined action of microwave radiation and magnetic field produces a negative absolute conductivity. We show that the voltage-biased system has a rich phase diagram in the system size and voltage plane, with second- and first-order transitions between the domain and homogeneous states for small and large voltages, respectively. We find the residual negative dissipative resistance in the stable domain state.
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