{
  "id": "1312.1194",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2013-12-04T15:00:40.000Z",
  "updated": "2014-03-17T17:04:57.000Z",
  "title": "Scanning-gate-induced effects in nonlinear transport through nanostructures",
  "authors": [
    "Cosimo Gorini",
    "Dietmar Weinmann",
    "Rodolfo A. Jalabert"
  ],
  "comment": "6 pages, 4 figures, revised and extended final version",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. B 89, 115414 (2014)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.89.115414",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "We investigate the effect of a scanning gate tip in the nonlinear quantum transport properties of nanostructures. Generally, we predict that the symmetry of the current-voltage characteristic in reflection-symmetric samples is broken by a tip-induced rectifying conductance correction. Moreover, in the case of a quantum point contact (QPC), the tip-induced rectification term becomes dominant as compared to the change of the linear conductance at large tip-QPC distances. Calculations for a weak tip probing a QPC modeled by an abrupt constriction show that these effects are experimentally observable.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2014-03-17T17:04:57.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "72.10.-d",
      "07.79.-v",
      "72.20.Ht",
      "73.23.-b"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "nonlinear transport",
      "scanning-gate-induced effects",
      "nanostructures",
      "nonlinear quantum transport properties",
      "large tip-qpc distances"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review B",
      "year": 2014,
      "month": "Mar",
      "volume": 89,
      "number": 11,
      "pages": 115414
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 6,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2014PhRvB..89k5414G"
    }
  }
}