Tuesday, January 22, 2013

1301.4572 (P. Olbrich et al.)

Giant spin-polarized current in a Dirac fermion system at cyclotron
resonance
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P. Olbrich, C. Zoth, P. Vierling, K. -M. Dantscher, G. V. Budkin, S. A. Tarasenko, V. V. Bel'kov, D. A. Kozlov, Z. D. Kvon, N. N. Mikhailov, S. A. Dvoretsky, S. D. Ganichev
We report on the observation of the giant spin-polarized photocurrent in HgTe/HgCdTe quantum well (QW) of critical thickness at which a Dirac spectrum emerges. 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 gating. The photocurent data, accompanied by measurements of radiation transmission as well as Shubnikov-de Haas and quantum Hall effects, give an evidence that the enhancement of the photocurrent is caused by cyclotron resonance in a Dirac fermion system. The developed theory shows that the current is spin polarized and originates from the spin dependent scattering of charge carriers heated by the radiation.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4572

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