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Thermoelectric and viscous contributions to the hydrodynamic ratchet effect

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2024-05-17 v1

Abstract

We study thermoelectric and viscous contributions to the ratchet effect, i.e. radiation-induced generation of the direct electric current, Jrat,J_{\rm rat}, in asymmetric dual-grating gate structure without inversion center. Previously [E.M\"onch et al, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 105}, 045404 (2022)], it was demonstrated that frequency dependence of the JratJ_{\rm rat} is essentially different within hydrodynamic (HD) and drift-diffusion (DD) regimes of the electron transport: JratHD1/ω6 J_{\rm rat}^{\rm HD} \propto 1/\omega^6 and JratDD1/ω2 J_{\rm rat}^{\rm DD} \propto 1/\omega^2 for ω.\omega \to \infty. Here we analyze previously neglected thermoelectric contribution and find that it yields high-frequency asymptotic 1/ω21/\omega^2 even in the HD regime and can change sign of the response. Account of the finite viscosity of the electron liquid yields contribution which scales at high frequency as 1/ω4.1/\omega^4. We also find plasmonic resonances in the Jrat,J_{\rm rat}, and demonstrate that asymmetry of the structure allows for excitation of the so-called directional travelling plasmons.

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@article{arxiv.2405.09668,
  title  = {Thermoelectric and viscous contributions to the hydrodynamic ratchet effect},
  author = {S. O. Potashin and L. E. Golub and V. Yu. Kachorovskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.09668},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

13 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2111.09169