Temperature-dependent energy levels of electrons on liquid helium

E. Collin; W. Bailey; P. Fozooni; P. G. Frayne; P. Glasson; K. Harrabi; M. J. Lea

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.96.235427

Temperature-dependent energy levels of electrons on liquid helium

E. Collin, W. Bailey, P. Fozooni, P. G. Frayne, P. Glasson, K. Harrabi, M. J. Lea^*

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Abstract

We present measurements of the resonant microwave absorption between the Rydberg energy levels of surface-state electrons on the surface of superfluid liquid helium, in the frequency range 165-220 GHz. The resonant frequency was temperature dependent. The experiments are in agreement with recent theoretical calculations of the renormalization of the electron energy levels due to zero-point and thermal ripplons. The temperature-dependent contribution to the linewidth γ(T) for excitation to the first excited state at 189.6 GHz is compared with other measurements and theoretical predictions.

Original language	English
Article number	235427
Journal	Physical Review B
Volume	96
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.235427
State	Published - 20 Dec 2017

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Funding Information:
We thank A. J. Dahm, J. Goodkind, K. Kono, S. A. Lyon, P. J. Meeson, Y. Mukharsky, P. M. Platzman, J. Saunders, and especially M. I. Dykman and D. Konstantinov for discussions and F. Greenough, A. K. Betts, and others for technical support. The work was supported by the EPSRC (UK) Grant No. GR/R12602, by the EU Human Potential Programme under Contract No. HPRN-CT-2000-00157 Surface Electrons, and by Royal Holloway, University of London.

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Temperature-dependent energy levels of electrons on liquid helium

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