Nonlinear surface polaritons in 2D electron system in high magnetic field

Abstract

The paper deals with the theoretical investigation of nonlinear surface polaritons (NSP) in isolated two-dimensional electron system (2DES) arranged at the interface between linear and nonlinear media and placed into the external quantizing magnetic field directed perpendicularly to 2DES. We consider that nonlinear medium dielectric permeability depends upon the tangential component of electric field only. It is shown that under the integer quantum Hall effect conditions all NSP characteristics are represented by the quantized values. It is found that the NSP spectrum contains two NSP modes - high-frequency and low-frequency ones. It is shown that the NSP can exist only in the case where the value of tangential component of electric field at the interface is less than a certain critical value. It is found that the resonant interaction between the NSP high-frequency mode and surface polariton mode occurs in the vicinity of the cyclotron resonance subharmonic.