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Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) is a powerful technique for investigating quantum phases appearing in two-dimensional electron systems. The electrons respond to the piezoelectric field of SAWthrough screening, attenuating its amplitude and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Xiao Liu , Mengmeng Wu , Renfei Wang , Xinghao Wang , Wenfeng Zhang , Yujiang Dong , Rui-Rui Du , Yang Liu , Xi Lin

This article reviews the main theoretical and experimental advances regarding the interaction between surface acoustic waves (SAWs) and electronic excitations in graphene. The coupling of the graphene electron gas to the SAW piezoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 A. Hernández-Mínguez , Y. -T. Liou , P. V. Santos

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) traveling on the surface of a piezoelectric crystal can, through the magnetoelastic interaction, excite traveling spin-wave resonance in a magnetic film deposited on the substrate. This spin-wave resonance in…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-29 Praveen G. Gowtham , Dominic Labanowski , Sayeef Salahuddin

We study theoretically the piezoelectric interaction of a surface acoustic wave (SAW) with a two-dimensional electron gas confined to an isolated quantum dot. The electron motion in the dot is diffusive. The electron-electron interaction is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 Andreas Knaebchen , Yehoshua Levinson , Ora Entin-Wohlman

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs), coherent vibrational modes localized at solid surfaces, have been employed to manipulate and detect electronic and magnetic states in condensed-matter systems via strain. SAWs are commonly excited in a…

We study the effect of a periodic density modulation on surface acoustic wave (SAW) propagation along a 2D electron gas near Landau level filling $\nu=1/2$. Within the composite fermion theory, the problem is described in terms of fermions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. D. Mirlin , P. Woelfle , Y. Levinson , O. Entin-Wohlman

We show that ultrasound can induce the Shapiro steps (SS) in the charge-density-wave (CDW) state. When ultrasound with frequency $\omega$ and a dc voltage are applied, the SS occur at the current $I$ $\propto$ $n\omega$ with integer $n$.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Michiyasu Mori , Sadamichi Maekawa

The electromotive forces induced by surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are investigated in ferromagnetic thin films. CoFeB thin films deposited on LiNbO$_3$ substrates are patterned into Hall-bars to study the acoustoelectric transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Takuya Kawada , Masashi Kawaguchi , Masamitsu Hayashi

We predict high-velocity magnetic domain wall (DW) motion driven by out-of-plane acoustic spin in surface acoustic waves (SAWs). We demonstrate that the SAW propagating at a 30-degree angle relative to the x-axis of a 128-degree Y-LiNbO3…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-16 Jiacheng Lu , Fa Chen , Yiming Shu , Yukang Wen , Hang Zou , Yuhao Liu , Shiheng Liang , Wei Luo , Yue Zhang

Charge-density-wave (CDW) order in correlated metals originates in a peaked electronic susceptibility at a finite wavevector $\mathbf Q_0$, set either by Fermi-surface features (nesting or saddle-point singularities) or by momentum-resolved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Han Huang

Focusing microcavities for surface acoustic waves (SAWs) produce highly localized strain and piezoelectric fields that can dynamically control excitations in nanostructures. Focusing transducers (FIDTs) that generate SAW beams which match…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Madeleine E. Msall , Paulo V. Santos

We have studied numerically the dynamics of sliding charge-density waves (CDWs) in the presence of impurities in d=1,2. The model considered exhibits a first order dynamical transition at a critical driving force $F_c$ between ``rough''…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Lee-Wen Chen , Leon Balents , Matthew P. A. Fisher , M. Cristina Marchetti

We investigate the propagation of a piezoelectric surface acoustic wave (SAW) across a GaAs/Al$_X$Ga$_{1-X}$As heterostructure surface, on which there is fixed a metallic split-gate. Our method is based on a finite element formulation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Rahman , M. Kataoka , C. H. W. Barnes , H. P. Langtangen

The interaction of a surface acoustic wave (SAW) with a a two-dimensional electron gas in a periodic electric potential and a classical magnetic field is considered. We calculate the attenuation of the SAW and its velocity change and show…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Y. Levinson , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. D. Mirlin , P. Woelfle

The manipulation of skyrmions by surface acoustic waves (SAW) has garnered significant interest in the field of spintronic devices. Previous studies established that skyrmions can be generated and moved by strain pulses. In this study, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Philipp Schwenke , Ephraim Spindler , Vitaliy I. Vasyuchka , Alexandre Abbass Hamadeh , Philipp Pirro , Mathias Weiler

Collective charge-density wave (CDW) transport was measured under a high magnetic field in NbSe$_3$ microbridges which have been cut transversely and at an angle to the chains' direction. We give evidences that the CDW sliding is driven by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-08 A. V. Frolov , A. P. Orlov , A. A. Sinchenko , P. Monceau

Incommensurate charge density waves (CDW) have the extraordinary ability to display non-Ohmic behavior when submitted to an external field. The mechanism leading to this non trivial dynamics is still not well understood, although recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-01 E. Bellec , I. Gonzalez-Vallejo , V. L. R. Jacques , A. A. Sinchenko , A. P. Orlov , P. Monceau , S. J. Leake , D. Le Bolloc'h

We study experimentally the onset of Faraday waves near the endwalls of rectangular vessel containing two stably-stratified fluid layers, subject to horizontal oscillations. These subharmonic waves (SWs) are excited, because the horizontal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-01 Linfeng Piao , Anne Juel

We present a theory of the pinning of dynamic spin density wave (SDW) fluctuations in a d-wave superconductor by local imperfections which preserve spin-rotation invariance, such as impurities or vortex cores. The pinning leads to static…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoli Polkovnikov , Matthias Vojta , Subir Sachdev

The oscillation instability of sessile drops is ubiquitous in surface acoustic wave (SAW)-powered digital microfluidics. Yet, the physics underlying these phenomena has not been elucidated owing to the interplay between hydrodynamics,…