Fully screened two-dimensional magnetoplasmons and rotational gravity shallow water waves in a rectangle

TL;DR

This paper analytically investigates two-dimensional magnetoplasmons in a rectangular electron system near a metal gate under magnetic fields, revealing mode behaviors and analogies to shallow water waves, with implications for terahertz frequency applications.

Contribution

It provides analytical solutions for magnetoplasmon modes in a 2D system with a perpendicular magnetic field, including asymptotic behaviors and analogies to shallow water wave phenomena.

Findings

Mode frequencies tend to zero as magnetic field increases.

Analytical expressions for weak and strong magnetic fields.

Established analogy between magnetoplasmons and shallow water waves.

Abstract

We study plasmons in a rectangular two-dimensional (2D) electron system in the vicinity of a planar metal electrode (gate) and in the presence of a perpendicular uniform magnetic field, using Maxwell's equations and neglecting retardation effects. The conductivity of the 2D system is characterized by the dynamical Drude model without taking collisional relaxation into account, which well describes both high mobility graphene and other field effect transistor structures, including quantum wells like Ga(Al)As, in the terahertz and in some cases sub-terahertz frequency ranges. Without a magnetic field, we analytically find the current distribution and frequency of plasma eigenmodes when the plasmon wavelength is much larger than the distance to the gate, i.e. in the fully screened limit. To find an approximate solution in a magnetic field, we expand current in the complete set of eigenmodes without magnetic fields. Analytical asymptotic expressions in weak and strong magnetic fields were obtained for the lower modes. Unlike the disk and stripe, the frequencies of these modes tend to zero as the magnetic field tends to infinity. We also discuss a direct analogy to rotational gravity shallow water waves, where size-quantized Poincare waves correspond to size-quantized magnetoplasmons, while Kelvin waves correspond to edge magnetoplasmons.