Abstract
We present a complete investigation of the collective excitations in quantum wells subject to in-plane magnetic fields based on the random phase approximation and self-consistently calculated ground states in the Hartree approximation. We find that, for a symmetric quantum well of width w, high in-plane fields can, besides the usual optical intrasubband plasmons (OP’s), give rise to an additional branch of undamped acoustic plasmons (AP’s), which does not exist in a single well without In low fields the magnetic-field broken symmetry of electron wave functions causes an anticrossing feature of the plasmon dispersions even in the symmetric well. In intermediate fields an unusual anisotropy effect occurs: the number of the plasmon branches depends on the angle between the magnetic field and the in-plane plasmon wave vector For there exist two branches of plasmons (OP’s and AP’s), whereas only one (OP) exists for
- Received 31 August 2001
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.65.085307
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