Abstract
The conductance through a smooth potential barrier in a narrow quantum wire is shown to be quantized. The study of this simple model demonstrates that there are two essential elements for such conductance quantizations in the ballistic regime: a quantized energy spectrum and a nearly-classical transmission or reflection through the potential barrier. In some sense the quantized conductance steps can be viewed as a spetrometer of the quantum wire.
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