posted on 2023-01-10, 02:33authored byDenis Sedov, Vladimir Shirobokov, Ilya Tokatly, Ivan Iorsh
We consider a laterally confined two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), placed inside a gyrotropic cavity. Splitting of the circularly polarized electromagnetic modes leads to the emergence of the ground state spontaneous magnetization, anomalous Hall effect and chiral edge currents in 2DEG. We examine the dependence of the magnetization and edge current density on the system size for two particular cases of the confining potential: infinite wall and parabolic potentials. We show that paramagnetic and diamagnetic contributions to the edge currents have qualitatively different dependence on the system size. These findings pave the route to the design quantum electrodynamic engineering of the material properties of the mesoscopic electron systems.
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