Magnetic Depopulation of 1D Subbands in a Narrow 2D Electron Gas in a GaAs:AlGaAs Heterojunction

Abstract

We present results on the transverse magnetoconductance in the range 0.3 to 8 T of a narrow, variable-width channel in a GaAs:AlGaAs heterojunction. As the width of the channel is decreased below 0.25 \ensuremath{\mu}m the structure in the magnetoconductance changes from Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations to the magnetic depopulation of one-dimensional subbands. A semiclassical WKB calculation is presented which gives good agreement with experiment.