Superradiant Decay of Cyclotron Resonance of Two-Dimensional Electron Gases

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We report on the observation of collective radiative decay, or superradiance, of cyclotron resonance (CR) in high-mobility two-dimensional electron gases in GaAs quantum wells using time-domain terahertz magnetospectroscopy. The decay rate of coherent CR oscillations increases linearly with the electron density in a wide range, which is a hallmark of superradiant damping. Our fully quantum mechanical theory provides a universal formula for the decay rate, which reproduces our experimental data without any adjustable parameter. These results firmly establish the many-body nature of CR decoherence in this system, despite the fact that the CR frequency is immune to electron-electron interactions due to Kohnメs theorem.

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Zhang, Qi, Arikawa, Takashi, Kato, Eiji, et al.. "Superradiant Decay of Cyclotron Resonance of Two-Dimensional Electron Gases." Physical Review Letters, 113, no. 4 (2014) American Physical Society: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.047601.

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