Nonlinear acousto-electric transport in a two-dimensional electron system

Details Nonlinear acousto-electric transport in a two-dimensional electron system Nonlinear acousto-electric transport in a two-dimensional electron system

2000-05-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0005122v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

27 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.62.2659

We study both theoretically and experimentally the nonlinear interaction between an intense surface acoustic wave and a two-dimensional electron plasma in semiconductor-piezocrystal hybrid structures. The experiments on hybrid systems exhibit strongly nonlinear acousto-electric effects. The plasma turns into moving electron stripes, the acousto-electric current reaches its maximum, and the sound absorption strongly decreases. To describe the nonlinear phenomena, we develop a coupled-amplitude method for a two-dimensional system in the strongly nonlinear regime of interaction. At low electron densities the absorption coefficient decreases with increasing sound intensity, whereas at high electron density the absorption coefficient is not a monotonous function of the sound intensity. High-harmonic generation coefficients as a function of the sound intensity have a nontrivial behavior. Theory and experiment are found to be in a good agreement.

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