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Temperature dependence of Coulomb drag between finite-length quantum wires

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-08-27 v2

Abstract

We evaluate the Coulomb drag current in two finite-length Tomonaga-Luttinger-liquid wires coupled by an electrostatic backscattering interaction. The drag current in one wire shows oscillations as a function of the bias voltage applied to the other wire, reflecting interferences of the plasmon standing waves in the interacting wires. In agreement with this picture, the amplitude of the current oscillations is reduced with increasing temperature. This is a clear signature of non-Fermi-liquid physics because for coupled Fermi liquids the drag resistance is always expected to increase as the temperature is raised.

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@article{arxiv.0704.0515,
  title  = {Temperature dependence of Coulomb drag between finite-length quantum wires},
  author = {J. Peguiron and C. Bruder and B. Trauzettel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0515},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

5 pages, 5 figures; v2: accepted version at PRL