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Coulomb drag in graphene/hBN/graphene moir\'e heterostructures

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2024-10-30 v3

Abstract

We report on the observation of Coulomb drag between graphene-hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) moir\'{e} heterostructure with a moir\'{e} wavelength of \sim14 nm and an intrinsic graphene with a lattice constant of \sim0.25 nm. By tuning carrier densities of each graphene layer independently, we find that the charge carriers in moir\'{e} mini-bands, i.e., near the satellite Dirac point (sDP), can be coupled with the massless Fermions near the original Dirac point (oDP), strongly enough to generate a finite drag resistivity. At high temperature (TT) and large density (nn), the drag resistivities near both oDP and sDP follow a typical nαn^{-\alpha} (α=1.31.7\alpha=1.3\sim1.7) and T2T^2 power law dependence as expected for the momentum transfer process and it also satisfies the layer reciprocity. In contrast, at low TT, the layer reciprocity is broken in both oDP-oDP and sDP-oDP coupled regions that suggest dominant energy drag. Furthermore, quantitatively, the drag resistivities near sDPs are smaller than those near oDP and they deviate from T2T^2 dependence below \sim100 K. These results suggest that the coupling between the carriers in moir\'{e} mini-bands and those in original Dirac bands may not be of a simple Fermi liquid nature.

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@article{arxiv.2405.20393,
  title  = {Coulomb drag in graphene/hBN/graphene moir\'e heterostructures},
  author = {Yueyang Wang and Hongxia Xue and Xiong Wang and Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi and Dong-Keun Ki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.20393},
  year   = {2024}
}

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11 pages, 7 figures