Orbital effect of an in-plane magnetic field on quantum transport in chaotic lateral dots

Falko, Vladimir and Jungwirth, T (2002) Orbital effect of an in-plane magnetic field on quantum transport in chaotic lateral dots. Physical review B, 65 (8): 081306. -. ISSN 1098-0121

Abstract

We show that an in-plane magnetic field is able to break time-reversal symmetry of the orbital motion of electrons in two-dimensional semiconductor structures, due to the momentum-dependent inter-subband, mixing, which results in supression of weak localization effect. Then, we analyze the influence of the in-plane field on weak localization correction and universal fluctuations of conductance in large-area chaotic semiconductor quantum dots.