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A D Chepelianskii1, D Konstantinov2, M I Dykman3
1LPS, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, UMR 8502, F-91405 Orsay, France.
Abstract:
Electrons on the helium surface display sharp resonant absorption lines related to the transitions between the subbands of quantized motion transverse to the surface. A magnetic field parallel to the surface strongly affects the absorption spectrum. We show that the effect results from admixing the intersubband transitions to the in-plane quantum dynamics of the strongly correlated electron liquid or a Wigner crystal. This is similar to the admixing of electron transitions in color centers to phonons. The spectrum permits a direct characterization of the many-electron dynamics and also enables testing the theory of color centers in a system with controllable coupling.
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