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Frictional Coulomb drag in strong magnetic fields

Condensed Matter 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

A treatment of frictional Coulomb drag between two 2-dimensional electron layers in a strong perpendicular magnetic field, within the independent electron picture, is presented. Assuming fully resolved Landau levels, the linear response theory expression for the transresistivity ρ21\rho_{21} is evaluated using diagrammatic techniques. The transresistivity is given by an integral over energy and momentum transfer weighted by the product of the screened interlayer interaction and the phase-space for scattering events. We demonstrate, by a numerical analysis of the transresistivity, that for well-resolved Landau levels the interplay between these two factors leads to characteristic features in both the magnetic field- and the temperature dependence of ρ21\rho_{21}. Numerical results are compared with recent experiments.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9704232,
  title  = {Frictional Coulomb drag in strong magnetic fields},
  author = {M. C. Bonsager and K. Flensberg and B. Y-K. Hu and A. -P. Jauho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9704232},
  year   = {2009}
}

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RevTeX, 34 pages, 8 figures included in text