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Generation of direct current in a semiconductor superlattice under the action of a bichromatic field as a parametric effect

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Generation of direct current in a semiconductor superlattice under the action of an ac bichromatic field is considered in the most general case of an arbitrary ratio of the frequencies of the fields being mixed. It is shown that this effect is of parametric origin associated with oscillations of the electron effective mass in the miniband of the superlattice.

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  1. Ogarev Mordovian State University, Saransk, 430005, Russia

    A. V. Shorokhov & N. N. Khvastunov

  2. Evsev’ev Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute, Saransk, 430007, Russia

    N. N. Khvastunov

  3. Department of Physics, University of Oulu, Oulu, 90014, Finland

    T. Hyart & K. N. Alekseev

  4. Department of Physics, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK

    K. N. Alekseev

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Shorokhov, N.N. Khvastunov, T. Hyart, K.N. Alekseev, 2010, published in Zhurnal Éksperimental’noı i Teoreticheskoı Fiziki, 2010, Vol. 138, No. 5, pp. 930–938.

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Shorokhov, A.V., Khvastunov, N.N., Hyart, T. et al. Generation of direct current in a semiconductor superlattice under the action of a bichromatic field as a parametric effect. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 111, 822–829 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776110110130

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