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Many-electron system on helium and the color center spectroscopy

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2021-07-07 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Electrons on the helium surface display sharp resonant absorption lines related to the transitions between the subbands of quantized motion transverse to the surface. A magnetic field parallel to the surface strongly affects the absorption spectrum. We show that the effect comes from admixing the out-of-plane motion to the in-plane quantum dynamics of the strongly correlated electron liquid or a Wigner crystal. This is similar to the admixing electron transitions in color centers to phonons. The spectrum permits a direct characterization of the many-electron dynamics and also enables testing the theory of color centers in a system with a controllable coupling.

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@article{arxiv.2011.05282,
  title  = {Many-electron system on helium and the color center spectroscopy},
  author = {A. D. Chepelianskii and D. Konstantinov and M. I. Dykman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.05282},
  year   = {2021}
}