Abstract

The transport properties of a caterpillar-like Sinai billiard are investigated in the ballistic regime. The experimental kinetic coefficients exhibit pronounced features, characteristic of this kind of billiard. A Monte-Carlo style simulation of the semi-classical electron motion is performed in order to model the transmission probabilities Tij of an ideal caterpillar structure. By visualising the spatial charge density distributions, the main features in the transmission probabilities are related to special electron orbits which dominate the electron dynamics at a given B. Finally, Poincaré sections are calculated close to the commensurability condition. The appearance of stability islands surrounded by the stochastic sea characterises the presence of regular electron skipping orbits involved in the ballistic transport phenomena.

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