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Giant Frictional Drag in Double Bilayer Graphene Heterostructures

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2016-07-27 v1

Abstract

We study the frictional drag between carriers in two bilayer graphene flakes separated by a 2 - 5 nm thick hexagonal boron nitride dielectric. At temperatures (TT) lower than \sim 10 K, we observe a large anomalous negative drag emerging predominantly near the drag layer charge neutrality. The anomalous drag resistivity increases dramatically with reducing {\it T}, and becomes comparable to the layer resistivity at the lowest {\it T} = 1.5 K. At low TT the drag resistivity exhibits a breakdown of layer reciprocity. A comparison of the drag resistivity and the drag layer Peltier coefficient suggests a thermoelectric origin of this anomalous drag.

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@article{arxiv.1603.00757,
  title  = {Giant Frictional Drag in Double Bilayer Graphene Heterostructures},
  author = {Kayoung Lee and Jiamin Xue and David C. Dillen and Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi and Emanuel Tutuc},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.00757},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures, supplementary material uploaded as an ancillary file