Surface acoustic-wave-induced magnetoresistance oscillations in a two-dimensional electron gas

Phys Rev Lett. 2004 Jul 16;93(3):036804. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.036804. Epub 2004 Jul 15.

Abstract

We study the geometrical commensurability oscillations imposed on the resistivity of 2D electrons in a perpendicular magnetic field by a propagating surface acoustic wave (SAW). We show that, for omega<omega(c), this effect contains an anisotropic dynamical classical contribution increasing the resistivity and a nonequilibrium quantum contribution isotropically decreasing the resistivity, and we predict zero-resistance states associated with geometrical commensurability at large SAW amplitude.