Hall resistance anomalies induced by a radiation field

A study is made of the four-terminal Hall junction under the influence of a radiation field. The frequency of the radiation field is tuned to a transition between the energy of a bound state below a conduction subband and the Fermi energy of the incident electrons. Radiation-field-induced resonant dips of the Hall resistance are exhibited at low magnetic fields. Pis’ma Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 66, No. 6, 403–408 (25 September 1997) Published in English in the original Russian journal. Edited by Steve Torstveit.     

A hybrid-phonon resonance in a quasi-two-dimensional nanostructure

The coefficient of absorption of electromagnetic radiation by a quasi-two-dimensional electron gas placed in an oblique magnetic field is found. The scattering of electrons by optical phonons is shown to lead to resonant absorption. The shape of the resonance peaks on the absorption curve is studied, and their doublet nature is demonstrated. Finally, the dependence of the resonance peaks on the angle between the magnetic field vector and the confinement plane is investigated. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 111, 1092–1106 (March 1997)     

Microwave radiation induced collective response in Si/SiGe heterostructures with a 2D electron gas

The collective resonant photoresponse in Si/SiGe structures with a 2DEG under microwave radiation is reported for the first time. The application of microwave radiation of various frequencies results in resonant photoconductivity at magnetic field values that are systematically lower than expected for the cyclotron resonance (CR) in an infinitely large two-dimensional electron system. The analysis of the data shows that the observed microwave radiation induced response is dominated by plasmon excitations.     

Effect of a weak magnetic field on the state of structural defects and the plasticity of ionic crystals

The aim of this work is to examine the influence of a weak (on the energy scale) magnetic field on the state of dislocations and point defects in ionic crystals. It is found that complex point defects existing in a metastable state are sensitive to a magnetic field B∼1 T. The contributions are identified, and the kinetics of various types of reactions within the structural defects and between them leading to plastification of the crystals in a magnetic field are determined. The effect of light on the sensitivity of the point defects to a magnetic field is described, and the spectral characteristics of this effect are determined. A resonant effect of the combined action of a weak constant magnetic field and a high-frequency magnetic field on the dislocation mobility is found to occur when these fields satisfy the conditions of electron paramagnetic resonance. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 115, 605–623 (February 1999)     

Dynamical behavior of electron transport in AlGaAs/GaAs double-barrier structures under a high-frequency radiation field

We investigate the time-dependent dynamical behavior of electron transport in AlGaAs/GaAs double-barrier structures under a high-frequency radiation field. The effects of the radiation field with different amplitude and frequency on the real-time and mean current-voltage curves are taken into account. We find that the amplitude and frequency of the radiation field affect the final stable state current-voltage (I-V) behaviors, which leads to the switching between different current states at a smaller bias than that of the absence of the radiation field, and both current hysteresis and resonant peaks are suppressed by the external radiation field. The high radiation field strength can make the resonant peak of current split and the hysteresis of current disappear. This effect provides the potential to use double-barrier structure as a THz photoelectric switch.     

场向传播的内磁层哨声波对辐射带高能电子的共振扩散

基于高斯分布的哨声波谱密度分布、偶极子背景磁场模型以及建立在卫星观测数据基础上的半经验电子密度纬度分布模型,对于等离子体层顶以外区域(4≤L≤7),计算了准线性当地及弹跳平均电子共振扩散系数,并估算了与磁层哨声波回旋共振导致的辐射带电子损失及加速时间尺度.结果表明,波粒共振相互作用区域取决于电子能量、波谱分布、电子赤道抛射角以及当地电子密度及背景磁场.哨声波共振频率除了与以上5个参量有关外,还与地磁纬度有关.赤道哨声波主要影响较低能量辐射带电子的加速,中高纬度哨声波主要作用于较高能量辐射带电 关键词： 共振波粒相互作用 地球辐射带 哨声波 回旋共振加速及散射沉降     

Radiative process in strong magnetic fields

Abstract

The behavior of electromagnetic processes in strong magnetic fields is currently of great interest in high-energy astrophysics. Observations of neutron stars indicate that magnetic fields larger than 10¹² Gauss exist in nature. In fields this strong, where electrons behave much as if they were in bound atomic states, familiar processes undergo profound changes and exotic processes become important. Strong magnetic fields affect the physics in several fundamental ways: energies prependicular to the field are quantized, transverse momentum is not conserved and electron/positron spin is important. The relaxation of transverse mometum conservation allows first order processes and their inverses: one-photon pair production and annihilation, synchrotron/cyclotron radiation and absorption, which are kinematically forbidden under field-free conditions. The first two are essentially quantum-mechanical and hence significant only in fields whose strength approaches the critical field, B _cr = 4.414 × 10¹³ Gauss. One-photon pair production is likely to be the dominant source of e ⁺ -e ^? pairs in fields exceeding 10¹² Gauss. While synchrotron radiation and absorption are observable as classical electromagnetic processes in weak fields, they are considerably different in high fields, where the classical synchrotron radiation formulae can violate conservation of energy, and predict too large an emissivity and electron energy loss rate. The second-order processes: two-photon pair production and annihilation and Compton Scattering, are also modified in strong fields. The discreteness of e ⁺ - e^? pair states causes resonant behavior in the cross sections and decreases the second-order rates from their free-space values. These processes play an important role in modelling high energy emission from pulsars and gamma-ray bursts.     

相对论简并电子气体的磁化

中子星内部的致密电子是高度简并的相对论气体, 其输运性质与中子星磁或热的观测现象密切相关, 被认为是中子星磁场的主要载体. 外磁场中电子的朗道能级是分立的且高度简并的, 与无外场时的能量差决定 了系统的磁化程度, 用量子统计的方法可计算理想相对论电子气体的磁化率. 结果表明弱场条件下的磁化率在数量级上接近白矮星的10^-3. 强磁场下的磁化呈现出类似在某些低温金属中出现的de Haas-van Alphen 震荡效应, 高次谐频的震荡幅度有可能超出临界磁化时的磁化率. 表明中子星内部有可能存在非稳定的磁化过程, 发生类似气液转化的一级相变过程, 出现两种磁化共存的稳定态或过冷磁化的亚稳态(若不同磁化态间存在表面能). 从亚稳态向稳定态的突然转化可能与磁星的辐射有关, 可以解释在磁星巨闪过程中观测到的额外辐射问题.     

Resonant tunnelling in O-D systems

O-D energy spectroscopy by means of transport and magneto-transport measurements has been carried out in double barrier resonant tunnelling heterostructures. Two models for the fabrication imposed lateral confining potential have been considered to account for the resonant lines associated with tunnelling of electrons through the O-D states of the quantum well. Preliminary measurements in a magnetic field are consistent with the values of magnetic length and undepleted conducting core radius in our structure, and indicate that up to 6 T the energy spectrum is dominated by spatial quantization. Single-charging effects in our structures are discussed.     

Scattering of low-energy electrons by positive ions in a magnetic field. II. Resonances,transition probabilities,and transport frequencies

We analyze quantum-mechanically electron-ion collisions in a magnetic field at a low temperature, for which the electron's thermal energy is less than the energy gap between two Landau levels and the electron's Larmor radius is less than the characteristic impact parameter of close collisions without the magnetic field. To calculate transition probabilities, we use the analytical procedure proposed in the first part of our paper. We calculate the energy and lifetime of the resonant (autoionization) states of an electron embedded in the Coulomb electric field of an ion and in a uniform magnetic field. The obtained values coincide in order of magnitude with the known exact numerical values. We find that the electron backward scattering probability irregularly (chaotically) depends on the particle energy and the magnetic field. We propose analytical approximations for the collision transport frequencies, one of which describes the electron braking along the magnetic field and another, equalizing of the temperatures corresponding to the electron motion along and across the magnetic field. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 51, No. 8, pp. 682–699, August 2008.     

Resonant influence of hypersound on the radiation of an axially channeled electron

Abstract

The spectral intensity of the radiation emitted by an axially channeled electron in a single crystal excited by a longitudinal hypersonic wave propagating along the channeling direction has been calculated for the energy range 10MeV ≤ E ≤ 100 MeV. It has been shown that under the influence of acoustic vibrations excited in the single crystal a resonant intensification of the electron channeling radiation, a variation of its spectral distribution as well as inverse radiative transitions are possible.     

Electron transport across a quantum wire embedding a saw-tooth superlattice

By developing the recursive Green function method, the transport properties through a quantum wire embedding a finite-length saw-tooth superlattice are studied in the presence of magnetic field. The effects of magnetic modulation and the geometric structures of the superlattice on transmission coefficient are discussed. It is shown that resonant peak splitting of this kind of structure is different from that of ‘magnetic' and ‘electric' superlattices in two-dimensional electron gas. The transmission spectrum can be tailored to match requirements through adjusting the size of saw-tooth quantum dot and field strength.     

Resonant microwave conductivity response to ac current in La0.7Pb0.3MnO3 crystals

An experimental study of the effect of low-frequency transport current on the microwave conductivity of single-crystal La_0.7Pb_0.3MnO₃ is reported. In the absence of an external magnetic field, the microwave conductivity response to a current follows a relaxation behavior. In a nonzero external magnetic field, the response spectrum exhibits a peak of resonant amplitude enhancement. The resonant response has a nonlinear nature. The temperature and field dependences of the main parameters of the microwave response correlate directly with the behavior of the magnetoresistance. The results obtained are analyzed within the oscillator approximation. Electronic phase separation is proposed as a possible mechanism for the current action. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 41, 2187–2192 (December 1999)     

Resonance Compton scattering in an external magnetic field

The scattering of a photon by an electron in an external magnetic field under resonant conditions, when the photon energy is close to the splittings between the Landau levels, is investigated. Formulas are obtained for the cross section of the process taking account of the polarization of the electron. For external fields ～10¹² G the resonant Compton cross section is several orders of magnitude greater than the Thompson cross section, and the width of the resonance is tens of electron volts.     

Absorption and emission of terahertz radiation in doped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells

Spontaneous emission of terahertz radiation from structures with GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells in a longitudinal magnetic field has been studied. It is shown that some bands in the emission spectrum can be related to radiative electron transitions between resonant and localized impurity states, as well as to the transitions with participation of subband states. The temperature dependence of the equilibrium intraband absorption of terahertz radiation and its modulation in a longitudinal electric field in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells has been investigated.     

Transport Properties of Two-Dimensional Electron Gases in Antiparallel Magnetic-Electric Barrier Structures

We study theoretically transport properties of two-dimensional electron gases through antiparallel magnetic-electric barrier structures. Two kinds of magnetic barrier configurations are employed: one is that the strength of the double δ-function in opposite directions is equal and the other is that the strength is unequal. Similarities and differences of electronic transports are presented. It is found that the transmission and the conductance depend strongly on the shape of the magnetic barrier and the height of the electric barrier. The results indicate that this system does not possess any spin filtering and spin polarization and electron gases can realize perfect resonant tunneling and wave-vector filtering properties. Moreover, the strength of the effect of the inhomogeneous magnetic field on the transport properties is discussed.     

A laser accelerator

We show that a laser can efficiently accelerate charged particles if a magnetic field is introduced to improve the coupling between the particle and the wave. Solving the relativistic equations of motion for an electron in a uniform magnetic field and superposed, circularly polarized electromagnetic wave, we find that in energy-position phase space an electron traces out a curtate cycloid: it alternately gains and loses energy. If, however, the parameters are chosen so that the electron's oscillations in the two fields are resonant, it will continually accelerate or decelerate depending on its initial position within a wavelength of light. A laboratory accelerator operating under these resonant conditions appears attractive: in a magnetic field of 10⁵ Gauss, and the fields of a 5×10¹² W, 10 μm wavelength laser, an optimally positioned electron would accelerate to 700 MeV in only 10m. Supported by NASA Grant NSG-7490     

Suppression of the equilibrium tunneling current between slightly disordered two-dimensional electron systems with different electron concentrations in a high magnetic field

Tunneling between parallel two-dimensional electron gases (2DEG) in accumulation layers formed on both sides of the single doped AlGaAs barrier are examined in both zero and high magnetic field. Accumulation layers are separated from highly n-doped contact regions which freely supply electrons to the 2DEGs via 80 nm thick lightly n-doped spacer layers. Strongly oscillating current with magnetic field along the 2DEGs is absent in this arrangement. Without magnetic field resonant tunneling between 2DEGs with different as grown electron concentration could be settle by application of external voltage bias. High magnetic fields (ν<1) shift resonant tunneling to zero external bias and suppresses tunneling current, creating wide gap in the tunneling density of states at the Fermi level arisen from the in-plane Coulomb interaction in the 2DEGs. Pis’ma Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 69, No. 3, 236–241 (10 February 1999) Published in English in the original Russian journal. Edited by Steve Torstveit.     

Resonant Auger decay in the L2,3-MM spectrum of Ar excited by electron bombardment

The L_2,3-MM Auger spectrum of argon was measured using electron beam excitation. A weak structure on the high energy side of the main transitions was identified as corresponding to the resonant Auger transitions by comparing these spectral structures with individual resonant Auger spectra excited by monochromatic synchrotron radiation.     

Three-phonon assisted cyclotron harmonic transitions in the magnetophotoconductivity of n-InSb

The CO₂ laser-induced magnetophotoconductivity of n-InSb (10¹⁴ cm^-3) at liquid helium temperatures exhibits resonant structure which depends upon the photon energy and the magnetic field. The resonant peaks are explained on the basis of a simple model in which an electron absorbs a photon and emits successively three LO phonons.