Plasmonic Drag in a Flowing Fermi Liquid
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2020-01-01 v1
Abstract
Collective modes in two-dimensional electron fluids show an interesting response to a background carrier flow. Surface plasmons propagating on top of a flowing Fermi liquid acquire a non-reciprocal character manifest in a asymmetry of mode dispersion. The nonreciprocity arises due to Fermi surface polarization by the flow. The flow-induced interactions between quasiparticles make collective modes of the system uniquely sensitive to subtle "motional" Fermi-liquid effects. The flow-induced Doppler-type frequency shift of plasmon resonances, arising due to electron interactions, can strongly deviate from the classical value. This opens a possibility to directly probe motional Fermi-liquid effects in plasmonic near-field imaging experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1912.13409,
title = {Plasmonic Drag in a Flowing Fermi Liquid},
author = {Haoyang Gao and Zhiyu Dong and Leonid Levitov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.13409},
year = {2020}
}