Abstract

Driving a 2D electron gas by AC electric field leads to a DC electric current flowing along the edge of the system. The effect is caused by the local breaking of space inversion symmetry at the edge. The current is generated in a narrow stripe determined by the screening length of the AC electric field and the mean free path of carriers. The developed microscopic theory of the effect shows that the excitation spectrum of the edge current and even the current direction depend on the mechanism of electron scattering. In an external magnetic field, the excitation spectrum of the current features the cyclotron resonance.

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