Macroscopic quantum effects of electromagnetic induction in silicon nanostructures
At room temperature, a macroscopic quantum galvanomagnetic effect of Faraday electromagnetic induction was demonstrated under conditions of the capture of single magnetic flux quanta in the edge channels, confined by chains of negative-U centers, in a silicon nanostructure heavily doped with boron, prepared in Hall geometry on an n-type Si (100) substrate. It is shown that this effect leads to the appearance of an induction current when only a constant magnetic field is applied in the absence of an externally applied voltage or a stabilized current. The experimental dependences of on the magnitude of the external magnetic field in its various directions demonstrate both the Hall staircase of conductivity and the Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations.