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Giant photocurrents in a Dirac fermion system at cyclotron resonance
Olbrich, P., Zoth, C., Vierling, P., Dantscher, K.-M., Budkin, G. V., Tarasenko, S. A., Bel'kov, V. V., Kozlov, D. A., Kvon, Z. D., Mikhailov, N. N., Dvoretsky, S. A. and Ganichev, Sergey (2013) Giant photocurrents in a Dirac fermion system at cyclotron resonance. Phys. Rev. B 87, p. 235439.Date of publication of this fulltext: 05 Dec 2016 14:39
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.34933
Abstract
We report on the observation of the giant photocurrents in HgTe/HgCdTe quantum well (QW) of critical thickness at which a Dirac spectrum emerges. At an exciting QW of 6.6 nm width by terahertz (THz) radiation and sweeping magnetic field we detected a resonant photocurrent. Remarkably, the position of the resonance can be tuned from negative (-0.4 T) to positive (up to 1.2 T) magnetic fields by ...
We report on the observation of the giant photocurrents in HgTe/HgCdTe quantum well (QW) of critical thickness at which a Dirac spectrum emerges. At an exciting QW of 6.6 nm width by terahertz (THz) radiation and sweeping magnetic field we detected a resonant photocurrent. Remarkably, the position of the resonance can be tuned from negative (-0.4 T) to positive (up to 1.2 T) magnetic fields by means of optical doping. The photocurrent data, accompanied by measurements of radiation transmission as well as Shubnikov-de Haas and quantum Hall effects, prove that the photocurrent is caused by cyclotron resonance in a Dirac fermion system, which allows us to obtain the effective electron velocity v approximate to 7.2 x 10(5) m/s. We develop a microscopic theory of the effect and show that the inherent spin-dependent asymmetry of light-matter coupling in the system of Dirac fermions causes the electric current to flow.
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| Item type | Article | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Phys. Rev. B | ||||
| Publisher: | AMER PHYSICAL SOC | ||||
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| Place of Publication: | COLLEGE PK | ||||
| Volume: | 87 | ||||
| Page Range: | p. 235439 | ||||
| Date | June 2013 | ||||
| Institutions | Physics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics > Professor Ganichev > Group Sergey Ganichev | ||||
| Research groups and research centres | Deutsch-Russisches Zentrum für Terahertz-Forschung | ||||
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| Keywords | HGTE QUANTUM-WELLS; 2-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON-SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATOR; SPIN RELAXATION; HETEROSTRUCTURES; TRANSPORT; GRAPHENE; STATE; PHASE; HOLES; | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 500 Science > 530 Physics | ||||
| Status | Published | ||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Yes | ||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-349337 | ||||
| Item ID | 34933 |
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