Proposal for Plasmon Spectroscopy of Fluctuations in Low-Dimensional Superconductors

We propose to employ an optical spectroscopy technique to monitor the superconductivity and properties of superconductors in the fluctuating regime. This technique is operational close to the plasmon resonance frequency of the material, and it intimately connects with the superconducting fluctuations slightly above the critical temperature $T_c$. We find the Aslamazov-Larkin corrections to AC linear and DC nonlinear electric currents in a generic two-dimensional system exposed to an external longitudinal electromagnetic field. First, we study the plasmon resonance of normal electrons near $T_c$, taking into account their interaction with superconducting fluctuations, and show that fluctuating Cooper pairs reveal a redshift of the plasmon dispersion and an additional mechanism of plasmon scattering, which surpasses both the electron-impurity and the Landau dampings. Second, we demonstrate the emergence of a drag effect of superconducting fluctuations by the external field resulting in considerable, experimentally measurable corrections to the electric current in the vicinity of the plasmon resonance.Comment: Manuscript: 6 pages (main text), 2 figures, and Supplemental Material. Published in Phys. Rev. Letter

Photoinduced electric currents in Bose-Einstein condensates

We calculate a light-induced electric current which can occur from a Bose-Einstein condensate under the action of an external electromagnetic field with the frequency exceeding the ionization potential of the bosons, taking a system of indirect excitons as a testbed. We show that the ionization can be accompanied by the excitation of collective Bogoliubov modes. As a result, the current consists of two principal components: one regular, which has a counterpart in bosonic systems in the normal phase, and the other one specific for condensates since the photoabsorption is mediated by the emission of Bogoliubov quasiparticles. Surprisingly, the latter component soon becomes predominant with the increase of light frequency above the ionization potential.Comment: Manuscript: 5 pages, 2 figure

Bogolon-mediated electron capture by impurities in hybrid Bose-Fermi systems

We investigate the processes of electron capture by a Coulomb impurity center residing in a hybrid system consisting of spatially separated two-dimensional layers of electron and Bose-condensed dipolar exciton gases coupled via the Coulomb forces. We calculate the probability of the electron capture accompanied by the emission of a single Bogoliubov excitation (bogolon), similar to regular phonon-mediated scattering in solids. Further, we study the electron capture mediated by the emission of a pair of bogolons in a single capture event and show that these processes not only should be treated in the same order of the perturbation theory, but also they give more important contribution than single bogolon-mediated capture, in contrast with regular phonon scattering.Comment: Paper: 5 pages, 4 figure

Paramagnetic resonance in spin-polarized disordered Bose-Einstein condensates

We study the pseudo-spin density response of a disordered two-dimensional spin-polarized Bose gas of exciton polaritons to weak alternating magnetic field, assuming that one of the spin states of the doublet is macroscopically occupied and Bose-condensed while the occupation of the other state remains much smaller. We calculate spatial and temporal dispersions of spin susceptibility of the gas taking into account spin-flip processes due to the transverse-longitudinal splitting. Further, we use the Bogoliubov theory of weakly-interacting gases and show that the time-dependent magnetic field power absorption exhibits double resonance structure corresponding to two particle spin states (contrast to paramagnetic resonance in regular spin-polarized electron gas). We analyze the widths of these resonances caused by scattering on the disorder and show that, in contrast with the ballistic regime, in the presence of impurities, the polariton scattering on them is twofold: scattering on the impurity potential directly and scattering on the spatially fluctuating condensate density caused by the disorder. As a result, the width of the resonance associated with the Bose-condensed spin state can be surprizingly narrow in comparison with the width of the resonance associated with the non-condensed state.Comment: Manuscript: 6 pages, 2x2 figures, published in Scientific Reports 7, 2076 (2017