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In-plane magnetic field photoluminescence spectra from a series of GaAs/AlGaAs coupled double quantum wells show distinctive doublet structures related to the symmetric and antisymmetric states. The magnetic field behavior of the upper…

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It is demonstrated that the strong coupling of an electron gas to photons in systems with broken time-reversal symmetry results in bound electron-photon states which cannot be backscattered elastically. As a consequence, the electron gas…

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We show that the inter-band absorption of radiation in a 2D Dirac material leads to a direct electric current flowing at sample edges. The photocurrent originates from the momentum alignment of electrons and holes and is controlled by the…

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We demonstrate that the current of photoelectrons from a quantum dot exhibits oscillations as a function of the photon energy owing to the predominant ionization from the dot boundary. In the Fourier reciprocal space of the photoelectron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Himadri S. Chakraborty , Rashid G. Nazmitdinov , Mohamed E. Madjet , Jan-M. Rost

We analyze the dynamics of the molecular field incoherently pumped by the photoassociation of fermionic atoms and coupled by quantum tunnelling in a double-well potential. The relative phase distribution of the molecular modes in each well…

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In double quantum wells electrons experience a Lorentz force oriented perpendicular to the structure plane when an electric current is driven perpendicular to the direction of an in-plane magnetic field. Consequently, the excess charge is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Kolorenc , L. Smrcka , P. Streda

We show that the optical excitation of graphene with polarized light leads to the pure valley current where carriers in the valleys counterflow. The current in each valley originates from asymmetry of optical transitions and electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 L. E. Golub , S. A. Tarasenko , M. V. Entin , L. I. Magarill

We investigate the influence of a quantized photon field on thermoelectric transport of electrons through a quantum wire embedded in a photon cavity. The quantum wire is connected to two electron reservoirs at different temperatures leading…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-31 Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We show theoretically that electromagnetic waves propagating in the transparency region of a non-centrosymmetric medium can induce a dc electric current. The origin of the effect is the Raman scattering of light by free carriers in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 L. E. Golub , M. M. Glazov

We develop a microscopic theory of an unconventional photogalvanic effect in two-dimensional materials with the Dirac energy spectrum of the carriers of charge under strong driving. As a test bed, we consider a layer of a transition metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 V. M. Kovalev , I. G. Savenko

Steady illumination of a non-centrosymmetric semiconductor results in a bulk photovoltaic current, which is contributed by real-space displacements (`shifts') of charged quasiparticles as they transit between Bloch states. The shift induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Penghao Zhu , A. Alexandradinata

The influence of the Hall voltage on the photoluminescence of a dense hydrodynamic electron-hole plasma laser generated in a mesoscopic n-doped GaAs channel under intense laser excitation is studied. Laser excitation induces an interband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yu. A. Pusep , M. A. T. Patricio , G. M. Jacobsen , M. D. Teodoro , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov

The photogalvanic effect is studied in electron gas over the liquid He surface with the presence of quantizing magnetic field. The gas is affected by the weak alternating microwave electric field tilted towards the surface normal. Both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 L. I. Magarill , M. V. Entin

Transport properties of a quantum dot coupled to a photon cavity are investigated using a quantum master equation in the steady-state regime. In the off-resonance regime, when the photon energy is smaller than the energy spacing between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We investigate coherent electron transport through a parallel circuit of two quantum dots, each of which has a single tunable energy level. Electrons tunneling via each dot from the left lead interfere with each other at the right lead. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Sam Young Cho , Ross H. McKenzie , Kicheon Kang , Chul Koo Kim

It is shown that the electron scattering by static defects, acoustic or optical phonons in quantum wells subjected to an in-plane magnetic field is asymmetric. The probability of scattering contains terms which are proportional to both the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Tarasenko

Rectified electric current induced by irradiating light, so-called photocurrent, is an established phenomenon in optoelectronic physics. In this paper, we present a comprehensive classification of the photocurrent response arising from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-13 Hikaru Watanabe , Youichi Yanase

It is shown that a homogeneous non-equlibrium spin-polarization in semiconductor heterostructures results in an electric current. The microscopic origin of the effect is an inherent asymmetry of spin-flip scattering in systems with lifted…

We discuss optical absorption in topological insulators and study possible photoelectric effects theoretically. We found that absorption of circularly polarized electromagnetic waves in two-dimensional topological insulators results in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 S. N. Artemenko , V. O. Kaladzhyan

We report on the observation of magneto-oscillations of terahertz radiation induced photocurrent in HgTe/HgCdTe quantum wells (QWs) of different widths, which are characterized by a Dirac-like, inverted and normal parabolic band structure.…