Optically induced resonant tunneling of electrons in nanostructures

Abstract

We developed the theory of elastic electron tunneling through a potential barrier driven by a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field. It is demonstrated that the driven barrier can be considered as a stationary two-barrier potential which contains the quasi-stationary electron states confined between these two barriers. When the energy of an incident electron coincides with the energy of the quasi-stationary state, the driven barrier becomes fully transparent for the electron (the resonant tunneling). The developed theory is applied to describe electron transport through a quantum point contact irradiated by an electromagnetic wave.

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“…It is worth noting that due to the mathematical similarity between the Helmholtz equation in the paraxial limit [1,2] and the Schrödinger equation [22], the typical phenomena of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics such as delay times and resonant tunneling can be readily simulated in an optics laboratory [23][24][25].…”