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A temperature gradient applied to a ferromagnetic metal induces not only independent flows of electrons and magnons but also drag currents because of their mutual interaction. In this paper, we present a microscopic study of the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Terufumi Yamaguchi , Hiroshi Kohno , Rembert A. Duine

Lateral charge transport of a two-dimensional (2D) electronic system can be much influenced by feeding a current into another closely spaced 2D conductor, known as the Coulomb drag phenomenon -- a powerful probe of electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Yingjia Liu , Kaining Yang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Wencai Ren , Zheng Vitto Han , Siwen Zhao

An AC electric field applied to a junction comprising two spin-orbit coupled weak links connecting a quantum dot to two electronic terminals is proposed to induce a DC current and to generate a voltage drop over the junction if it is a part…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 O. Entin-Wohlman , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson , A. Aharony

Tungsten diselenide (WSe2), a semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC), shows great potential as active material in optoelectronic devices due to its ambipolarity and direct bandgap in its single-layer form. Recently, different…

Plasmon drag effect is studied theoretically and experimentally in gold films with a sine-wave height profile. Numerical simulations based on the modified electromagnetic momentum loss approach are shown to correctly describe the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-25 N. Noginova , M. LePain , V. Rono , S. Masshadi , R. Hussain , M. Durach

Transverse thermophotovoltaics has been conceptually proposed as a paradigm distinct from conventional junction-based photovoltaics, but has so far lacked a theoretical foundation. In this Letter, we establish a microscopic formalism of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Dingwei He , Gaomin Tang

We investigated theoretically the Coulomb drag effect in coupled 2D electron gases in a wide interval of magnetic field and temperature $ 1/\tau \ll \omega_c \ll E_F/\hbar$, $T \ll E_F$, $\tau$ being intralayer scattering time, $\omega_c$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. V. Khaetskii , Yuli V. Nazarov

Q. Ma et al.[1] recently reported a strong photocurrent associated with charge neutrality in graphene devices with non-uniform geometries, which they interpreted as an intrinsic photoresponse enhanced by the momentum non-relaxing nature of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Michael S. Fuhrer , Nikhil V. Medhekar

The connected system of Boltzman equations for the interacting system of electrons, positrons and photons in high external electric E and arbitrary magnetic H fields is solved. The consideration is made under the conditions of arbitrary…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Tofig M. Gassym

We report on a novel transport phenomenon realized by optical pumping in surface state electrons on helium subjected to perpendicular magnetic fields. The electron dynamics is governed by the photon-induced excitation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-04 Denis Konstantinov , Kimitoshi Kono

Although the absorption of light in a bulk homogeneous semiconductor produces photocarriers with non-zero momentum, it generally does not produce a current in the absence of an applied electric field because equal amounts of carriers with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-10 Yiming Gong , Kai Wang , Steven T. Cundiff

The gradient force is the conservative component of many types of forces exerted by light on particles. When it is derived from a potential, there is no heat transferred to the particle interacting with the light field. However, most…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-15 L. Marmet

Coulomb drag is a transport phenomenon whereby long-range Coulomb interaction between charge carriers in two closely spaced but electrically isolated conductors induces a voltage (or, in a closed circuit, a current) in one of the conductors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 B. N. Narozhny , A. Levchenko

The photoelectric effect describes the ejection of an electron upon absorption of one or several photons. The kinetic energy of this electron is determined by the photon energy reduced by the binding energy of the electron and, if strong…

Motivated by recent experiments of Pillarisetty {\it et al}, \prl {\bf 90}, 226801 (2003), we present a theory of drag in electronic double layers at low electron concentration. We show that the drag effect in such systems is anomolously…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Boris Spivak , Steven A. Kivelson

The differential cross section, $d\sigma/dt$ for $\omega$ meson exclusive photoproduction on the proton above the resonance region ($2.6<W<2.9$ GeV) was measured up to a momentum transfer $-t = 5$ GeV$^2$ using the CLAS detector at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-04-06 M. Battaglieri , M. Brunoldi , R. De Vita , J. M. Laget , M. Osipenko , M. Ripani , M. Taiuti

The process of pair creation by a photon in a constant and homogeneous electromagnetic field of an arbitrary configuration is investigating. At high energy the correction to the standard quasiclassical approximation (SQA) has been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 V. M. Katkov

In recent years, photon drag has attracted enormous attention owing to both fundamental and practical interests. In this paper, by presenting a density-matrix approach, we have theoretically demonstrated an enhanced photon drag in a moving…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-02 Seyedeh Hamideh Kazemi , Mohammad Mahmoudi

The photoelectric effect consists in the photoexcitation of electrons above a potential barrier at a material interface and is exploited for photodetection over a wide frequency range. This three-dimensional process has an inherent…

The effects of radiation drag force on the structure of relativistic electron-positron and electron-proton outflows are considered within the one-fluid approximation for quasi-monopole cold outflow. It is shown that for a Poynting-dominated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. S. Beskin , Nadia L. Zakamska , H. Sol