2003/10/31 by Gloria Platero, Ramon Aguado · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.mes-hall
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2004.01.004
Review submitted to Physics Reports. 188 pages, 85 figures
arxiv created 2003/10/31 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
In this review we focus on electronic transport through semiconductor nanostructures which are driven by ac fields. Along the review we describe the available experimental information on different nanostructures, like resonant tunneling diodes, superlattices or quantum dots, together with the theoretical tools needed to describe the observed features. These theoretical tools such as, for instance, the Floquet formalism, the non-equilibrium Green's function technique or the density matrix technique, are suitable for tackling with photon-assisted transport problems where the interplay of different aspects like nonequilibrium, nonlinearity, quantum confinement or electron-electron interactions gives rise to many intriguing new phenomena. Along the review we give many examples which demonstrate the possibility of using appropriate ac fields to control/manipulate coherent quantum states in semiconductor nanostructures.