The mutual rectification effect of electric currents induced by electromagnetic waves in materials with non-additive energy spectrum: the quantum kinetic equation approach

Abstract

The effect of direct current component appearance in material with non-additive energy spectrum in the case when two electromagnetic waves with mutually transverse planes of polarization are incident normally on the surface of the sample is studied on the base of analysis of quantum kinetic equation. The cases of electron scattering on optical and acoustic phonons are considered. The first non-vanishing approximation by electromagnetic waves field strengths is obtained. It is shown that in concerned situation the decisive condition of direct current appearance is sufficient inelasticity of scattering