Symmetries in Hall-like systems: microwave and nonlinear transport effects

Abstract

In this work, we present a model to describe the nonlinear response to a dc electrical current of a two-dimensional electron system subjected to magnetic and microwave fields. Considering the separation of the electron coordinates into the non-commuting relative and guiding center coordinates, we obtain a unitary transformation that exactly solves the time-dependent Schrödinger equation in the presence of arbitrarily strong electric, magnetic and microwave fields. Based on this formalism, we provide a Kubo-like formula that takes into account the oscillatory Floquet structure of the problem. We discuss results related to the recently discovered zero-resistance states and to the microwave-induced resistivity oscillations and the Hall-induced resistivity oscillations.