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We argue, for a wide class of systems including graphene, that in the low temperature, high density, large separation and strong screening limits the drag resistivity behaves as d^{-4}, where d is the separation between the two layers. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 B Amorim , N M R Peres

An interacting double layer system, with uniform positive background, is studied at finite temperature in the presense of a strong magnetic field corresponding to half filling in each layer. By mapping this system to composite fermions in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Sakhi

Based on a rigorous quantum-kinetic approach, spin-charge coupled drift-diffusion equations are derived for a strongly confined two-dimensional hole gas. An electric field leads to a coupling between the spin and charge degrees of freedom.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Kleinert , V. V. Bryksin

Hydrodynamics analysis of waves in two-dimensional degenerate electron gas with the account of separate spin evolution is presented. The transverse electric field is included along with the longitudinal electric field. The Coulomb exchange…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Pavel A. Andreev

Recent measurements revealed an anomalous Coulomb drag in graphene, hinting at new physics at charge neutrality. The anomalous drag is explained by a new mechanism based on energy transport, which involves interlayer energy transfer,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Justin C. W. Song , Dmitry A. Abanin , Leonid S. Levitov

We demonstrate that forward electron-electron scattering due to Coulomb interation in a two-dimensional ballistic electron gas leads to the (T\ln {T})^{-1} temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity, which is logarithmically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. O. Lyakhov , E. G. Mishchenko

Coulomb drag is a transport phenomenon whereby long-range Coulomb interaction between charge carriers in two closely spaced but electrically isolated conductors induces a voltage (or, in a closed circuit, a current) in one of the conductors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 B. N. Narozhny , A. Levchenko

We theoretically study Coulomb drag between two helical edges with broken spin-rotational symmetry, such as would occur in two capacitively coupled quantum spin Hall insulators. For the helical edges, Coulomb drag is particularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-13 N. Kainaris , I. V. Gornyi , A. Levchenko , D. G. Polyakov

A theoretical prediction of the spin-dependent electron self-energy and in-plane transport of a two-dimensional electron gas in proximity with a ferromagnetic gate is presented. The application of the predicted spin-dependent properties is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Ciuti , J. P. McGuire , L. J. Sham

We study the Coulomb drag between two spatially separated electron systems in a strong magnetic field, one of which exhibits the quantum Hall effect. At a fixed temperature, the drag mimics the behavior of $\sigma_{xx}$ in the quantum Hall…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Efrat Shimshoni , S. L. Sondhi

Utilizing time-resolved Kerr rotation techniques, we have investigated the spin dynamics of a high mobility, low density two dimensional electron gas in a GaAs/Al0:35Ga0:65As heterostructure in dependence on temperature from 1.5 K to 30 K.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 X. Z. Ruan , H. H. Luo , Yang Ji , Z. Y. Xu , V. Umansky

In Coulomb drag, a current flowing in one conductor can induce a voltage across an adjacent conductor via the Coulomb interaction. The mechanisms yielding drag effects are not always understood, even though drag effects are sufficiently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 A. J. Keller , J. S. Lim , David Sánchez , Rosa López , S. Amasha , J. A. Katine , Hadas Shtrikman , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

We theoretically investigate the Coulomb drag between the edge states of two quantum spin Hall systems. Using an interacting theory of the one-dimensional helical edge modes, we show that the drag vanishes at second order in the inter-edge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-09-29 Vladimir A. Zyuzin , Gregory A. Fiete

We review the fabrication and key transport properties of graphene double layers, consisting of two graphene monolayers placed in close proximity, independently contacted, and separated by an ultra-thin dielectric. We outline a simple band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-14 Seyoung Kim , Emanuel Tutuc

We derive an expression for the drag rate (i.e., interlayer momentum transfer rate) for carriers in two coupled two-dimensional gases to lowest nonvanishing order in the screened interlayer electron--electron interaction, valid for {\sl…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Karsten Flensberg , Ben Yu-Kuang Hu

We examine the effect of the Coulomb interaction on the mobility and diffusion of spin packets in doped semiconductors. We find that the diffusion constant is reduced, relative to its non-interacting value, by the combined effect of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Irene D'Amico , Giovanni Vignale

We study the effect of Coulomb drag between two closely positioned graphene monolayers. In the limit of weak electron-electron interaction and small inter-layer spacing ($\mu_{1(2)}, T\ll v/d$) the drag is described by a universal function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-07 B. N. Narozhny , M. Titov , I. V. Gornyi , P. M. Ostrovsky

We have analyzed Coulomb drag between currents of interacting electrons in two parallel one-dimensional conductors of finite length $L$ attached to external reservoirs. For strong coupling, the relative fluctuations of electron density in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Vadim Ponomarenko , Dmitri Averin

We review the mechanisms of low-temperature electron transport across a quantum dot weakly coupled to two conducting leads. Conduction in this case is controlled by the interaction between electrons. At temperatures moderately lower than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. I. Glazman , M. Pustilnik

Spin propagation in systems of one-dimensional interacting fermions at finite temperature is intrinsically diffusive. The spreading rate of a spin packet is controlled by a transport coefficient termed "spin drag" relaxation time $\tau_{\rm…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-01-16 Diego Rainis , Marco Polini , M. P. Tosi , G. Vignale