2024/04/11 by Ivan Kostylev, Mohamed Hatifi, Kostylev, I. +5
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Superconductivity in MgB2 and Alloys
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2404.07582
openalex publication_date 2024/04/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The properties of a two-dimensional (2D) electron system can be drastically altered by a magnetic field applied perpendicular to the 2D plane. In particular, the frequency of its bulk collective excitations becomes gaped at the cyclotron frequency, while the low-frequency localized excitations, the edge magnetoplasmon (EMP), appear near the system's edge. A new type of the delocalized low-frequency excitations, the gradient magnetoplasmon (GMP), was recently shown to exist in a 2D electron system with a linear density gradient that breaks the system's cylindrical symmetry [Phys. Rev. B 103, 075420 (2021)]. Like EMP, these new excitations are gapless and chiral, and originate from the classical Hall effect. Here we show that a similar magnetoplasmon mode can exist in a system with strongly-inhomogeneous radial distribution of the electron density that preserves the cylindrical symmetry. This is experimentally demonstrated in a pristine system of surface electrons on liquid helium and is confirmed by a numerical simulation. This result extends the variety of known collective excitations in a 2D charge system and presents electrons on helium as a promising model system for their study.