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We study both experimentally and theoretically the driven motion of domain walls in extended amorphous magnetic films patterned with a periodic array of asymmetric holes. We find two crossed ratchet effects of opposite sign that change the…

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An undoped double quantum well (DQW) was driven with a terahertz (THz) electric field of frequency \omega_{THz} polarized in the growth direction, while simultaneously illuminated with a near-infrared (NIR) laser at frequency \omega_{NIR}.…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Y. Su , S. Carter , M. S. Sherwin , A. Huntington , L. A. Coldren

We report the observation and comprehensive study of the complex nonlinear intensity dependence of the magneto-photogalvanic effect (MPGE) current induced by terahertz (THz) radiation in Cd$_{x}$Hg$_{1-x}$Te films with inverted ($x = 0.15$)…

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We study the quantum beats in the polarization of the photon echo from donor-bound exciton ensembles in semiconductor quantum wells. To induce these quantum beats, a sequence composed of a circularly polarized and a linearly polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 S. V. Poltavtsev , I. A. Yugova , Ya. A. Babenko , I. A. Akimov , D. R. Yakovlev , G. Karczewski , S. Chusnutdinow , T. Wojtowicz , M. Bayer

A transverse ratchet effect has been measured in magnetic/superconducting hybrid films fabricated by electron beam lithography and magnetron sputtering techniques. The samples are Nb films grown on top of an array of Ni nanotriangles.…

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Quantum wire superlattices (1D) realized by controlled dislocation slipping in quantum well superlattices (2D) (atomic saw method) have already shown magnetophonon oscillations. This effect has been used to investigate the electronic…

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The equilibrium properties and interminiband transitions for Hartree-interacting two-dimensional electron gas in a one-dimensional chain of planar quantum rings subjected to a transverse homogeneous magnetic field are examined theoretically…

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Terahertz transmittance spectra of plasmonic crystals based on two-dimensional electron gas in AlGaN/GaN heterostructures were studied in grating-gate and gateless plasmonic crystals as a function of lateral bias. The decrease of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 M. Dub , P. Sai , Y. Ivonyak , P. Prystawko , W. Knap , S. Rumyantsev

In non-centrosymmetric materials, light can be rectified into two types of DC photocurrents, known as injection and shift currents, through the bulk photovoltaic effect. Recent theory has uncovered their deep relation with the two-state…

We study effects of tilted magnetic fields on energy levels in a double-quantum-well (DQW) system, focusing on the coupling of subbands and Landau levels (LLs). The subband-LL coupling induces anticrossings between LLs, manifested directly…

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The Teraherz (THz) photoresponse of a two-dimensional electron gas in the quantum Hall regime is investigated. We use a sample structure which is topologically equivalent to a Corbino geometry combined with a cross-gate technique. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-28 Christian Notthoff , Kevin Rachor , Detlef Heitmann , Axel Lorke

Dirac semimetals are expected to forbid the manifestation of the circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE) because of their crystal inversion symmetry. Here, we report the observation of the CPGE in Cd3As2 nanobelt field effect transistors, when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Bob Minyu Wang , Yuqing Zhu , Henry Clark Travaglini , Sergey Y. Savrasov , Dong Yu

We study thermoelectric and viscous contributions to the ratchet effect, i.e. radiation-induced generation of the direct electric current, $J_{\rm rat},$ in asymmetric dual-grating gate structure without inversion center. Previously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 S. O. Potashin , L. E. Golub , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

We have observed photoinduced negative optical conductivity, or gain, in the terahertz frequency range in a GaAs multiple-quantum-well structure in a strong perpendicular magnetic field at low temperatures. The gain is narrow-band: it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 X. Li , K. Yoshioka , Q. Zhang , N. Marquez Peraca , F. Katsutani , W. Gao , G. T. Noe , J. D. Watson , M. J. Manfra , I. Katayama , J. Takeda , J. Kono

The quantum Hall effect is studied in the topological insulator BiSbTeSe$_2$. By employing top- and back-gate electric fields at high magnetic field, the Landau levels of the Dirac cones in the top and bottom topological surface states can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Chuan Li , Bob de Ronde , Artem Nikitin , Yingkai Huang , Mark S. Golden , Anne de Visser , Alexander Brinkman

We observe that the illumination of unbiased graphene in the quantum Hall regime with polarized terahertz laser radiation results in a direct edge current. This photocurrent is caused by an imbalance of persistent edge currents, which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-05 H. Plank , M. V. Durnev , S. Candussio , J. Pernul , K. -M. Dantscher , E. Mönch , A. Sandner , J. Eroms , D. Weiss , V. V. Belkov , S. A. Tarasenko , S. D. Ganichev

We reveal the gate-tunable Berry curvature dipole polarizability in Dirac semimetal Cd3As2 nanoplates through measurements of the third-order nonlinear Hall effect. Under an applied electric field, the Berry curvature exhibits an asymmetric…

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