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Ratchet-Like Solitonic Transport in Quantum Hall Bilayers

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The pseudo-spin model for double layer quantum Hall system with total landau level filling factor ν=1\nu=1 is discussed. Unlike the "traditional" one where interlayer voltage enters as static magnetic field along pseudo- spin hard axis, in our model we consider applied interlayer voltage as a frequency of precessing pseudo-magnetic field lying into the easy plane. It is shown that a Landau-Lifshitz equation for the considered pseudo magnetic system well describes existing experimental data. Besides that, the mentioned model predicts novel directed intra-layer transport phenomenon in the system: unidirectional intra-layer energy transport is realized due to interlayer voltage induced motion of topological kinks. This effect could be observed experimentally detecting counter-propagating intra-layer inhomogeneous charge currents which are proportional to the interlayer voltage and total topological charge of the pseudo-spin system.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0407409,
  title  = {Ratchet-Like Solitonic Transport in Quantum Hall Bilayers},
  author = {Ramaz Khomeriki and Lasha Tkeshelashvili and Tinatin Buishvili and Shota Revishvili},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0407409},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures