Plasmon attenuation and optical conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas

Details Plasmon attenuation and optical conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas Plasmon attenuation and optical conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas

2003-12-29

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0312684v3

Phys. Rev. B 69, 195302 (2004).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

8 pages, 4 figures; final form, misprints corrected

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.69.195302

In a ballistic two-dimensional electron gas, the Landau damping does not lead to plasmon attenuation in a broad interval of wave vectors q << k_F. Similarly, it does not contribute to the optical conductivity \sigma (\omega, q) in a wide domain of its arguments, E_F > \omega > qv_F, where E_F, k_F and v_F are, respectively, the Fermi energy, wavevector and velocity of the electrons. We identify processes that result in the plasmon attenuation in the absence of Landau damping. These processes are: the excitation of two electron-hole pairs, phonon-assisted excitation of one pair, and a direct plasmon-phonon conversion. We evaluate the corresponding contributions to the plasmon linewidth and to the optical conductivity.

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