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VOLUME 92 (2010) | ISSUE 12 |
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Tunneling Hall Effect
P. S. Alekseev
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
Abstract
Electron tunneling in a semiconductor heterostructure with a barrier
in a weak magnetic field applied parallel to the barrier interfaces
is analyzed theoretically. A novel mechanism of the Hall effect in
this structure is suggested. It is shown that the Hall current in
the vicinity of the wide enough barrier is determined by the orbital
effect of the magnetic field on the electron motion under the
barrier, rather than by the electron
-drift and scattering
in the
conductive regions lying to the left and to the right of the
barrier.
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