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High harmonics of the cyclotron resonance in microwave transmission of a high-mobility two-dimensional electron system

M. L. Savchenko1,2,*, A. Shuvaev3, I. A. Dmitriev4,5, A. A. Bykov1,2, A. K. Bakarov1,2, Z. D. Kvon1,2, and A. Pimenov3

  • 1Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
  • 2Novosibirsk State University, Physics Department, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
  • 3Institute of Solid State Physics, Vienna University of Technology, 1040 Vienna, Austria
  • 4Terahertz Center, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
  • 5Ioffe Institute, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia

  • *mlsavchenko@isp.nsc.ru
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Phys. Rev. Research 3, L012013 – Published 5 February, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.L012013

Abstract

We report an observation of magneto-oscillations in transmittance of the circularly polarized microwave radiation through the high-mobility two-dimensional electron system hosted by a GaAs quantum well. The oscillations reflect an enhanced absorption of radiation at high harmonics of the cyclotron resonance and follow simultaneously measured microwave-induced resistance oscillations (MIRO) in the DC transport. While the relative amplitude (up to 1%) of the transmittance oscillations appears to be small, they represent a significant (greater than 50%) modulation of the absorption coefficient. The analysis of obtained results demonstrates that the low-B decay, magnitude, and polarization dependence of the transmittance oscillations accurately follow the theory describing photon-assisted scattering between distant disorder-broadened Landau levels. The extracted sample parameters describe reasonably well the concurrently measured MIRO. Our results provide insight into the MIRO polarization immunity problem and demonstrate that high-precision transmission measurements can be a sensitive probe of high-frequency dissipative effects in high-mobility systems.

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Phys. Rev. Research 3, L012013– Published 5 February, 2021
  • Received 26 August 2020
  • Accepted 12 January 2021
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