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Photocurrent generation is studied in a system composed of a quantum wire with side-coupled quantum rings. The current generation results from the interplay of the particular geometry of the system and the use of circularly polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuriy V. Pershin , Carlo Piermarocchi

The acoustogalvanic effect is proposed as a nonlinear mechanism to generate a direct electric current by passing acoustic waves in Dirac and Weyl semimetals. Unlike the standard acoustoelectric effect, which relies on the sound-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 P. O. Sukhachov , H. Rostami

We observe the phonon-drag voltage oscillations correlating with the resistance oscillations under microwave irradiation in a two-dimensional electron gas in perpendicular magnetic field. This phenomenon is explained by the influence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 A. D. Levin , Z. S. Momtaz , G. M. Gusev , O. E. Raichev , A. K. Bakarov

Structured optical fields can be used for the injection and control of charge and spin-valley currents. Here, we present a systematical study of these phenomena for interband absorption of structured light in 2D Dirac materials. We derive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 A. A. Gunyaga , M. V. Durnev , S. A. Tarasenko

We propose a heat current analog of the shift current, "shift heat current". We study nonlinear heat current responses to an applied ac electric field by a diagrammatic method and derive a microscopic expression for the second order dc heat…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-11 Yugo Onishi , Takahiro Morimoto , Naoto Nagaosa

We have directly measured coherent high-frequency magnetization dynamics in ferromagnet films induced by a spin-polarized DC current. The precession frequency can be tuned over a range of several gigahertz, by varying the applied current.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 W. H. Rippard , M. R. Pufall , S. Kaka , S. E. Russek , T. J. Silva

We develop a theory for the phonon magnetic moment in doped Dirac materials, treating phonons as emergent gauge and gravitational fields coupled to Dirac fermions in curved space. By classifying electron-phonon coupling into angular…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-16 Wenqin Chen , Xiao-Wei Zhang , Ting Cao , Shi-Zeng Lin , Di Xiao

We calculate the dissipative dc conductivity of a two-dimensional electron system in a magnetic field for the situation when its effective temperature exceeds the temperature of the acoustic phonon system. We demonstrate that at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Ryzhii

We propose a method that allows power conversion from DC magnetic fields to AC electric voltages using domain wall (DW) motion in ferromagnetic nanowires. The device concept relies on spinmotive force, voltage generation due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jun'ichi Ieda , Sadamichi Maekawa

We theoretically study direct current generation in a quantum spin chain induced by spinon excitations by light irradiation. We consider a s=1/2 1D antiferromagnetic XXZ model with magnetoelectric coupling that describes multiferroics with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-21 Ryosuke Yamashita , Shintaro Takayoshi , Takahiro Morimoto

Steady current in metals induces a thermal gradient, a phenomenon known as the Peltier effect. The Peltier effect is one of the fundamental phenomena in the thermoelectric properties of materials and is also used in applications such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Masahiro Sato

We describe a novel effect of the generation of direct current which may arise in semiconductors or semiconductor microstructures due to a mixing of coherent electromagnetic radiations of commensurate frequencies. The effect is, in essence,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kirill N. Alekseev , Mikhael V. Erementchouk , Feodor V. Kusmartsev

We discuss the first theory for the depinning of low dimensional, incommensurate, charge density waves (CDWs) in the strong electron-phonon (e-p) regime. Arguing that most real CDWs systems invariably develop a gigantic dielectric constant…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-24 P. Quemerais

Magnetoresistance oscillations in two-dimensional electron systems driven simultaneously by a strong direct current and a microwave irradiation, are analyzed within a unified microscopic scheme treating both excitations on an equal footing.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-19 X. L. Lei

Graphene/hBN/graphene tunnel devices offer promise as sensitive mid-infrared photodetectors but the microscopic origin underlying the photoresponse in them remains elusive. In this work, we investigated the photocurrent generation in…

Graphene is a promising candidate for the development of detectors of Terahertz (THz) radiation. A well-known detection scheme due to Dyakonov and Shur exploits the confinement of plasma waves in a field-effect transistor (FET), whereby a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 Andrea Tomadin , Alessandro Tredicucci , Vittorio Pellegrini , Miriam S. Vitiello , Marco Polini

We describe a strategy for conversion of optical power into DC electrical power using resonant absorption in plasmonic nanostructures. A thermodynamic analysis of the underlying mechanism motivates our description of the phenomenon, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-03 Matthew T. Sheldon , Harry A. Atwater

We report the rectifying effect of a constant-wave radio frequency (RF) current by a magnetic domain wall (DW) on a single-layered ferromagnetic wire. A direct-current (DC) voltage is generated by the spin torque diode effect, which is a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-06-13 A. Yamaguchi , T. Ono , Y. Suzuki , S. Yuasa , H. Miyajima

We calculate the contribution of the photon-assisted interaction of electrons with leaky interface phonons to the dissipative dc photoconductivity of a two-dimensional electron system in a magnetic field. The calculated photoconductivity as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Ryzhii

Electromagnon is the spin wave in multiferroic materials and is known to accompany electric polarization due to the cross correlation between the charge and spin. Here, we theoretically show that the electromagnons also induce dc current…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-30 Takahiro Morimoto , Naoto Nagaosa