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Novel Radiation-induced Magnetoresistance Oscillations in a Nondegenerate 2DES on Liquid Helium
We report the observation of novel magnetoresistance oscillations induced by
the resonant inter-subband absorption in nondegenerate 2D electrons bound to
the surface of liquid helium. The oscillations are periodic in 1/B and
originate from the scattering-mediated transitions of the excited electrons
into the Landau states of the first subband. The structure of the oscillations
is affected by the collision broadening of the Landau levels and by
many-electron effects.Comment: 4 figure
Collisional energy transfer in two-component plasmas
The friction in plasmas consisting of two species with different temperatures
is discussed together with the consequent energy transfer. It is shown that the
friction between the two species has no effect on the ion acoustic mode in a
quasi-neutral plasma. Using the Poisson equation instead of the
quasi-neutrality reveals the possibility for an instability driven by the
collisional energy transfer. However, the different starting temperatures of
the two species imply an evolving equilibrium. It is shown that the relaxation
time of the equilibrium electron-ion plasma is, in fact, always shorter than
the growth rate time, and the instability can thus never effectively take
place. The results obtained here should contribute to the definite
clarification of some contradictory results obtained in the past
Dynamics of the vortex-particle complexes bound to the free surface of superfluid helium
We present an experimental and theoretical study of the 2D dynamics of
electrically charged nanoparticles trapped under a free surface of superfluid
helium in a static vertical electric field. We focus on the dynamics of
particles driven by the interaction with quantized vortices terminating at the
free surface. We identify two types of particle trajectories and the associated
vortex structures: vertical linear vortices pinned at the bottom of the
container and half-ring vortices travelling along the free surface of the
liquid
Terahertz magneto-spectroscopy of transient plasmas in semiconductors
Using synchronized near-infrared (NIR) and terahertz (THz) lasers, we have
performed picosecond time-resolved THz spectroscopy of transient carriers in
semiconductors. Specifically, we measured the temporal evolution of THz
transmission and reflectivity after NIR excitation. We systematically
investigated transient carrier relaxation in GaAs and InSb with varying NIR
intensities and magnetic fields. Using this information, we were able to
determine the evolution of the THz absorption to study the dynamics of
photocreated carriers. We developed a theory based on a Drude conductivity with
time-dependent density and density-dependent scattering lifetime, which
successfully reproduced the observed plasma dynamics. Detailed comparison
between experimental and theoretical results revealed a linear dependence of
the scattering frequency on density, which suggests that electron-electron
scattering is the dominant scattering mechanism for determining the scattering
time. In InSb, plasma dynamics was dramatically modified by the application of
a magnetic field, showing rich magneto-reflection spectra, while GaAs did not
show any significant magnetic field dependence. We attribute this to the small
effective masses of the carriers in InSb compared to GaAs, which made the
plasma, cyclotron, and photon energies all comparable in the density, magnetic
field, and wavelength ranges of the current study.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
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