Electric-field control of electron interference effects in 2D semiconductor nanostructures with parabolic quantum wells

The possibility of the influence of a constant electric field on spatial reproduction effects for quantum-mechanical current density, which arise during interference of electron waves in 2D semiconductor nanostructures, is studied theoretically. It is found that, in structures comprising a narrow rectangular quantum well and a wide parabolic quantum well placed successively in the direction of propagation of an electron wave, the transverse current density distribution existing at the input of the wide quantum well is reproduced in this well with a certain accuracy in periodically repeated cross sections. The inhomogeneous current density distribution arises because of the interference of electron waves propagating in the wide quantum well simultaneously in different quantum-dimensional subbands. It is shown that it is possible to control these effects via the use of a constant electric field perpendicular to the axis of the structure in the region of the wide quantum well.