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EPL
Volume 129, Number 1, January 2020
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| Article Number | 17001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/129/17001 | |
| Published online | 12 February 2020 | |
Dynamic response of partially spin- and valley-polarised two-dimensional electron liquids
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Kepler University - Linz, Austria
Received: 10 September 2019
Accepted: 4 January 2020
The growing field of valleytronics provides new promising physics. Here, we focus on the collective modes of an infinitely thin electron layer with a binary valley degree of freedom that is unequally occupied. The spin populations are allowed to be imbalanced, too. This system can support four collective modes and two anti-resonances emerge. We study this copious dynamics in the spin- and valley-sensitive random phase approximation (RPA) and explain the uncommon behaviour by building a bridge from the many-fermion system to its bosonic counterpart. For completeness, we also report the RPA exchange and correlation energies for arbitrary spin and valley polarisation. A phase transition occurs at 
from the four-component to the ferro-magnetic, single-valley-occupation state.
PACS: 73.20.Mf – Collective excitations (including excitons, polarons, plasmons and other charge-density excitations) / 73.21.Fg – Quantum wells / 73.21.-b – Electron states and collective excitations in multilayers, quantum wells, mesoscopic, and nanoscale systems
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