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The nonequilibrium transfer of the energy between electrons of counter-propagating quasi-one-dimensional systems has been perturbatively calculated for edge channels in a two-dimensional system in the integer quantum Hall effect. The processes involving two electrons that are allowed only in the system with disorder have been taken into account. Expressions for the cases of Coulomb scattering and transfer of nonequilibrium phonons have been obtained. The energy transferred per unit time has a quasi-threshold dependence on the degree of nonequilibrium of the hot channel. According to numerical estimates for electrons in GaAs, Coulomb scattering processes dominate in the energy transfer and the expected effect can be experimentally observed.
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Original Russian Text © M.G. Prokudina, V.S. Khrapai, 2012, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2012, Vol. 95, No. 7, pp. 385–389.
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Prokudina, M.G., Khrapai, V.S. Pair scattering of electrons in edge channels of opposite chiralities in the presence of a disorder potential. Jetp Lett. 95, 345–349 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364012070077
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