Controlling chaos with magnetic field in semi-insulating GaAs

Abstract

Chaos control has stimulated a large amount of work. We have studied the effect of an external parallel magnetic field on the low-frequency current oscillations observed on a molecular beam epitaxy GaAs sample grown at 265 deg. C, and we have shown that it can be efficiently used for chaos control. The study of the magnetoresistance indicates that the effect of the magnetic field on the charges of the hopping conduction mechanism induces changes in the low-frequency oscillations. Due to this, we have used the magnetic field to control chaos assessed through direct observation low-frequency oscillations, their attractors, and bifurcation diagrams. We also found that the magnetic field interferes indirectly with the Coulombian interaction between the free charges in the conduction band and the hopping carriers, as well as with the recombination mechanism of field enhanced trapping. Controlling the low-frequency oscillations in semi-insulating GaAs by means of an external magnetic field permits probing the interaction of the slow hopping carriers and the fast free carriers in the electric-field domains.