Reply to "Comment on 'Electroconductance oscillations and quantum interference in ballistic nanostructures' "

Abstract

We show that the degree of quantum interference in the conductance of a structure, produced by modulating an applied potential step ${\mathit{V}}_{\mathit{T}}$ along one of the branches in a multiply connected system, depends strongly on the constriction geometry. We illustrate this by calculating the conductance G for both open-end and partially closed-end structures. Open-end structures, such as those studied in our paper, exhibit weak interference effects. However, significant interference effects are shown to be present in partially closed nanostructures, which more realistically model typical structures in experiments.