Magneto-shear modes and a.c. dissipation in a two-dimensional Wigner crystal

Details Magneto-shear modes and a.c. dissipation in a two-dimensional Wigner crystal Magneto-shear modes and a.c. dissipation in a two-dimensional Wigner crystal

1998-02-20

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9802200v1

Phys. Rev. B, v.58, pp. 13197-13203 (1998)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

REVTeX, 7 pp., 4 eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.58.13197

The a.c. response of an unpinned and finite 2D Wigner crystal to electric fields at an angular frequency $\omega$ has been calculated in the dissipative limit, $\omega \tau \ll 1$, where $\tau ^{-1}$ is the scattering rate. For electrons screened by parallel electrodes, in zero magnetic field the long-wavelength excitations are a diffusive longitudinal transmission line mode and a diffusive shear mode. A magnetic field couples these modes together to form two new magneto-shear modes. The dimensionless coupling parameter $\beta =2(c_{t}/c_{l})|\sigma_{xy}/\sigma_{xx}|$ where $c_{t}$ and $c_{l}$ are the speeds of transverse and longitudinal sound in the collisionless limit and $\sigma_{xy}$ and $\sigma_{xx}$ are the tensor components of the magnetoconductivity. For $\beta \geqslant 1$, both the coupled modes contribute to the response of 2D electrons in a Corbino disk measurement of magnetoconductivity. For $\beta \gg 1$, the electron crystal rotates rigidly in a magnetic field. In general, both the amplitude and phase of the measured a.c. currents are changed by the shear modulus. In principle, both the magnetoconductivity and the shear modulus can be measured simultaneously.

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