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We study the transconductance for two coupled one-dimensional wires or edge states described by Luttinger liquid models. The wires are assumed to interact over a finite segment. We find for the interaction parameter $g=1/2$ that the drag…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Karsten Flensberg

In this article we review the thermoelectric properties of three terminal devices with Coulomb coupled quantum dots (QDs) as observed in recent experiments [1,2]. The system we consider consists of two Coulomb-blockade QDs one of which can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Holger Thierschmann , Rafael Sánchez , Björn Sothmann , Hartmut Buhmann , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We study transport properties and the charge quantization phenomenon in a small metallic island connected to the leads through two quantum point contacts (QPCs). The linear conductance is calculated perturbatively with respect to weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 Edvin G. Idrisov , Ivan P. Levkivskyi , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

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

The description of transport phenomena in devices consisting of arrays of tunnel junctions, and the experimental confirmation of these predictions is one of the great successes of mesoscopic physics. The aim of this paper is to give a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-16 T. Kuhn , G. S. Paraoanu

We develop a Boltzmann-Langevin description of Coulomb drag effect in clean double-layer systems with large interlayer separation $d$ as compared to the average interelectron distance $\lambda_F$. Coulomb drag arises from density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-10 W. Chen , A. V. Andreev , A. Levchenko

We consider the Coulomb drag between two layers of two-dimensional electronic gases subject to a strong magnetic field. We first focus on the case in which the electronic density is such that the Landau level filling fraction $\nu$ in each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Iddo Ussishkin , Ady Stern

We investigated theoretically the Coulomb drag effect in coupled 2D electron gases in a wide interval of magnetic field and temperature $ 1/\tau \ll \omega_c \ll E_F/\hbar$, $T \ll E_F$, $\tau$ being intralayer scattering time, $\omega_c$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. V. Khaetskii , Yuli V. Nazarov

We study Coulomb drag between an active layer with a clean electron liquid and a passive layer with a pinned electron lattice in the regime of fast intralayer equilibration. Such a two-fluid system offers an experimentally realizable way to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-17 Tobias Holder

We study the thermoelectric transport of a small metallic island weakly coupled to two electrodes by tunnel junctions. In the Coulomb blockade regime, in the case when the ground state of the system corresponds to an even number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. S. Vasenko , D. M. Basko , F. W. J. Hekking

1D-Coulomb drag serves as a platform for probing electron-electron interactions in 1D systems. Under the charge fluctuation formalism, the non-reciprocal component of Coulomb drag signal in mesoscopic devices is predicted to rely on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Suyang Cai , Mingyang Zheng , Nathan Rao , Glen Gillia , Rebika Makaju , Sadhvikas J. Addamane , Dominique Laroche

Coulomb drag experiments have been an essential tool to study strongly interacting low-dimensional systems. Historically, this effect has been explained in terms of momentum transfer between electrons in the active and the passive layer.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 R. Makaju , H. Kassar , S. M. Daloglu , A. Huynh , A. Levchenko , S. J. Addamane , D. Laroche

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 show that the Coulomb interaction between two circuits separated by an insulating layer leads to unconventional thermoelectric effects, such as the cooling by thermal current effect, the transverse thermoelectric effect and Maxwell's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Mengmeng Xi , Rongqian Wang , Jincheng Lu , Tengyun Chen , Jian-Hua Jiang

The Coulomb contribution to the temperature-dependent rate of momentum transfer, $1/\tau_D$, between two electron systems in parallel layers is determined by setting up two coupled Boltzmann equations, with the boundary condition that no…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Antti-Pekka Jauho , Henrik Smith

We have observed thermal gating, i.e. electrostatic gating induced by hot electrons. The effect occurs in a device consisting of two capacitively coupled quantum dots. The double dot system is coupled to a hot electron reservoir on one side…

Heat is detrimental for the operation of quantum systems, yet it fundamentally behaves according to quantum mechanics, being phase coherent and universally quantum-limited regardless of its carriers. Due to their robustness, superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-31 Olivier Maillet , Diego Subero , Joonas T. Peltonen , Dmitry S. Golubev , Jukka P. Pekola

The temperature dependence of the I-V characteristics of many single-electron tunneling devices enable thermometer operation of these systems. We investigate two normal conducting kinds of them, {\sl (a)} a single junction in a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 H. -O. Müller , A. Hädicke , W. Krech

We address Coulomb drag and near-field heat transfer in a double-layer system of incoherent metals. Each layer is modeled by an array of tunnel-coupled SYK dots with random inter-layer interactions. Depending on the strength of intra-dot…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-08 A. L. Chudnovskiy , Alex Levchenko , Alex Kamenev

Coulomb drag is a powerful tool to study interactions in coupled low-dimensional systems. Historically, Coulomb drag has been attributed to a frictional force arising from momentum transfer whose direction is dictated by the current flow.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Mingyang Zheng , Rebika Makaju , Rasul Gazizulin , Sadhvikas J. Addamane , D. Laroche