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We extend de concept of Compton scattering to the case of plasmons. This concept was originally applied to electrons in vacuum. Here, we consider electrons in a plasma, and study the scattering properties of photon-plasmon interactions. We…

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We study the dynamical dielectric function of a two-dimensional hole gas, exemplified on [001]-GaAs and InAs quantum wells, within the Luttinger model extended to the two lowest subbands including bulk and structure inversion asymmetric…

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We study the plasmon mass scale in weakly coupled strongly interacting nonabelian gauge theory in a two dimensional configuration that mimics the boost invariant initial color fields in a heavy ion collision. We numerically measure the…

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Nonreciprocal plasmonics enables one-way light propagation at the nanoscale and it is an essential building block for photonics applications. Here, we explore intrinsic nonreciprocity in bulk plasmon propagation based on underlying…

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We examine the experimental and theoretical electron-energy loss spectra in 2$H$-Cu$_{0.2}$NbS$_2$ and find that the 1 eV plasmon in this material does not exhibit the regular positive quadratic plasmon dispersion that would be expected for…

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A theoretical investigation is made of the dispersion characteristics of plasmons in a two-dimensional periodic system of semiconductor (dielectric) cylinders embedded in a dielectric (semiconductor) background. We consider both square and…

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We investigate the rates for multielectron recombination within a dense plasma environment in local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE). We find that these multielectron recombination rates can be high within dense plasmas, and they should be…

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Reflectance, transmittance and absorbance of a symmetric light pulse, the carrying frequency of which is close to the frequency of interband transitions in a quantum well, are calculated. Energy levels of the quantum well are assumed…

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Unique properties of plasmons in two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) have been studied for many years. Existing theoretical approaches allow for analytical study of the properties of ungated and gated plasmons in two fundamental, ideal…

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An approach is proposed to determine parameters of homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening for reflection lines of quasi-two-dimensional excitons in semiconductor quantum well structures. A phenomenological model is developed taking into…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 G. V. Astakhov , V. A. Kosobukin , V. P. Kochereshko , D. R. Yakovlev , W. Ossau , G. Landwehr , T. Wojtowicz , G. Karczewski , J. Kossut

The energy spectrum of the valence band in HgTe/Cd$_x$Hg$_{1-x}$Te quantum wells with a width $(8-20)$~nm has been studied experimentally by magnetotransport effects and theoretically in framework $4$-bands $kP$-method. Comparison of the…

The collective excitation spectra are studied for a multisubband quasi-one-dimensional electron gas on the surface of liquid helium. Different intersubband plasmon modes are identified by calculating the spectral weight function of the…

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We survey the results of a long-term study of the process of radiative recombination. A rigorous theory of nonrelativistic electron radiative recombination with a hydrogen-like ion is used to calculate the total cross section of the…

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The plasma oscillations of the two-dimensional electron-hole system in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit coupling are studied. Only the intra-Landau level excitations are taken into account when the electrons and holes are situated on…

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Numerical and closed-form analytic expressions for plasmon dispersion relations and rates of dissipation are first obtained at finite-temperatures for free-standing gapped graphene. These closed-system results are generalized to an open…

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We study the collective electronic excitations in metallic single- and bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) using time dependent density functional theory in the random phase approximation. For very small momentum transfers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Kirsten Andersen , Kristian S. Thygesen

The degree of ionisation of a two-dimensional electron-hole plasma is calculated in the low-density (Boltzmann) limit. The electron-hole interaction is considered for all states: optically active and inactive, bound and unbound. The theory…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. E. Portnoi , I. Galbraith

We study quantum transport in HgTe/HgCdTe quantum wells under the condition that the chemical potential is located outside of the bandgap. We first analyze symmetry properties of the effective Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang Hamiltonian and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-05 I. V. Gornyi , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , A. D. Mirlin , P. M. Ostrovsky

The photoluminescence (PL) spectrum of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the fractional quantum Hall regime is studied as a function of the separation $d$ between the electron and valence hole layers. The abrupt change in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Arkadiusz Wojs , John J. Quinn

Plasmons in two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) strips with grounded electrodes (a gate or side contacts) are investigated. We consider two systems: (a) the 2DEG strip with a highly conducting gate and (b) the 2DEG strip with semi-infinite…

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