Coulomb drag between one-dimensional conductors
Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v2
Abstract
We have analyzed Coulomb drag between currents of interacting electrons in two parallel one-dimensional conductors of finite length attached to external reservoirs. For strong coupling, the relative fluctuations of electron density in the conductors acquire energy gap . At energies larger than , where is the impurity scattering rate, and for , where is the fluctuation velocity, the gap leads to an ``ideal'' drag with almost equal currents in the conductors. At low energies the drag is suppressed by coherent instanton tunneling, and the zero-temperature transconductance vanishes, indicating the Fermi liquid behavior.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0003118,
title = {Coulomb drag between one-dimensional conductors},
author = {Vadim Ponomarenko and Dmitri Averin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0003118},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 twocolumn pages in RevTex, added 1 eps-Figure and calculation of trans-resistance