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<mark>Journal publication date</mark> | 15/04/1992 |
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<mark>Journal</mark> | Physical review B |
Issue number | 15 |
Volume | 45 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Pages (from-to) | 8749-8751 |
Publication Status | Published |
<mark>Original language</mark> | English |
Using resonant-tunneling spectroscopy, we have studied the energy levels in wide quantum wells (of 60 and 120 nm well width) of double-barrier resonant-tunneling devices in high magnetic fields with a small tilt angle-alpha with respect to the growth axis. In the limit of high magnetic fields, the resonance spacing between successive levels becomes independent of the magnetic field and is cos2-alpha times the spacing at zero field. In this limit, these results can be understood quasiclassically by considering the motion of the particles to follow the magnetic-field lines inside of a quantum well with an effective thickness w/cos-alpha.