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In this experiment we study the spatio-temporal behavior of an electron-hole (e-h) plasma. The plasma is produced by injecting both electrons and holes into a rod-shaped crystal of germanium at liquid nitrogen temperatures as shown in Fig. 1. The crystal is placed in a magnetic field parallel to its axis, and an adjustable electric field is also applied along the length of the sample. The plasma can absorb energy from the applied fields and, beyond some threshold (typically a few volts/cm at a few kilogauss), an unstable travelling helical density wave develops within the plasma, as shown in the Appendix, Fig. A-1. Several nonlinearly coupled modes can be excited within the boundaries of the crystal.
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Held, G.A., Jeffries, C.D. (1985). Chaos and Turbulence in an Electron-Hole Plasma in Germanium. In: Haken, H. (eds) Complex Systems — Operational Approaches in Neurobiology, Physics, and Computers. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70795-7_24
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