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Phys. Rev. B 63, 165326 (2001) [14 pages]

Single-electron magnetoconductivity of a nondegenerate two-dimensional electron system in a quantizing magnetic field

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Frank Kuehnel1, Leonid P. Pryadko2,3, and M. I. Dykman1,*
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 48823
2School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 08540
3Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside, California, 92521

Received 29 August 2000; revised 25 January 2001; published 5 April 2001

We study transport properties of a nondegenerate two-dimensional system of noninteracting electrons in the presence of a quantizing magnetic field and a short-range disorder potential. We show that the low-frequency magnetoconductivity displays a strongly asymmetric peak at a nonzero frequency. The shape of the peak is restored from the calculated 14 spectral moments, the asymptotic form of its high-frequency tail, and the scaling behavior of the conductivity for ω⃗0. We also calculate ten spectral moments of the cyclotron resonance absorption peak, and restore the corresponding (nonsingular) frequency dependence using the continuous fraction expansion. Both expansions converge rapidly with an increasing number of included moments, and give numerically accurate results throughout the region of interest. We discuss the possibility of an experimental observation of the predicted effects for electrons on helium.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.63.165326
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.63.165326
PACS:
73.23.-b, 73.50.-h, 73.43.-f

*Email address: dykman@pa.msu.edu