We investigate electron dynamics at the graphene edge by studying the propagation of collective edge magnetoplasmon excitations. By timing the travel of narrow wave packets on picosecond time scales around exfoliated samples, we find chiral propagation with low attenuation at a velocity that is quantized on Hall plateaus. We extract the carrier drift contribution from the edge magnetoplasmon propagation and find it to be slightly less than the Fermi velocity, as expected for an abrupt edge.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElectron scattering from surface fluctuations on normal and superfluid 3He has been measured by its effect on the linewidth of the low-wave-vector transverse magnetophonon mode of the electron crystal (the Wigner solid) floating on the helium surface. The relaxation rate becomes anomalously low below 70 mK, and reaches a plateau at about 3 times less than its expected value before dropping further at the superfluid transition. The absence of such anomalous behavior on 4He suggests that the effect is specific to liquid 3He.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhys Rev B Condens Matter
February 1996