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We derive and evaluate expressions for the frictional Coulomb drag between disordered two-dimensional electron gas layers. Our derivation is based on the memory-function formalism and the expression for the drag reduces to previously known…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Lian Zheng , A. H. MacDonald

Several recent experiments have reported an anomalous temperature dependence of the Coulomb drag effect in electron-hole bilayers. Motivated by these puzzling data, we study theoretically a low-density electron-hole bilayer, where electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Dmitry K. Efimkin , Victor Galitski

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

Coulomb drag between parallel two-dimensional electronic layers is an excellent tool for the study of electron-electron interactions. In actual experiments, the layers display spatial charge density fluctuations due to imperfections such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Derek Y. H. Ho , Indra Yudhistira , Ben Yu-Kuang Hu , Shaffique Adam

We study drag effect in a system of two electrically isolated quantum point contacts (QPC), coupled by Coulomb interactions. Drag current exhibits maxima as a function of QPC gate voltages when the latter are tuned to the transitions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alex Levchenko , Alex Kamenev

Coulomb drag resulting from interlayer electron-electron scattering in double layer 2D electron systems at high magnetic field has been measured. Within the lowest Landau level the observed drag resistance exceeds its zero magnetic value by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. P. Lilly , J. P. Eisenstein , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

A set of stacked two-dimensional electron systems in a perpendicular magnetic field exhibits a three-dimensional version of the quantum Hall effect if interlayer tunneling is not too strong. When such a sample is in a quantum Hall plateau,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. W. Tomlinson , J. -S. Caux , J. T. Chalker

We develop a theory of Coulomb drag due to momentum transfer between graphene layers in a strong magnetic field. The theory is intended to apply in systems with disorder that is weak compared to Landau level separation, so that Landau level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Wang-Kong Tse , B. Y. K. Hu , J. N. Hong , A. H. MacDonald

We examine the effects of electron-electron interactions on transport between edge states in a multilayer integer quantum Hall system. The edge states of such a system, coupled by interlayer tunneling, form a two-dimensional, chiral metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Tomlinson , J. -S. Caux , J. T. Chalker

Here, we present theoretical studies of the temperature and magnetic field dependences of the Coulomb drag transresistivity between two parallel layers of two dimensional electron gases in quantum Hall regime near half filling of the lowest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

We study the way back-scattering electron--electron interaction generates Coulomb drag between quantum wires with different densities. At low temperature $T$ the system can undergo a commensurate-- incommensurate transition as the potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas Fuchs , Rochus Klesse , Ady Stern

Motivated by experiments, we study the sign of the Coulomb drag voltage in a double layer system in a strong magnetic field. We show that the commonly used Fermi Golden Rule approach implicitly assumes a linear dependence of intra-layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Felix von Oppen , Steven H. Simon , Ady Stern

In a one dimensional electron gas at low enough density, the magnetic (spin) exchange energy $J$ between neighboring electrons is exponentially suppressed relative to the characteristic charge energy, the Fermi energy $E_F$. At non-zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory A. Fiete , Karyn Le Hur , Leon Balents

Electron drag between two two-dimensional electron gases in magnetic fields has been observed with a polarity opposite that for zero field. This negative drag requires that the electrons have a hole-like dispersion. Density dependence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 X. G. Feng , S. Zelakiewicz , H. Noh , T. J. Ragucci , T. J. Gramila , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

The diagrammatic linear response formalism for the Coulomb drag in two--layer systems is developed. This technique can be used to treat both elastic disorder and intralayer interaction effects. In the absence of intralayer…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Alex Kamenev , Yuval Oreg

We show that the Coulomb drag effect exhibits saturation at small temperatures, when calculated to the third order in the interlayer interactions. The zero-temperature transresistance is inversely proportional to the third power of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alex Levchenko , Alex Kamenev

Momentum transfer due to Coulomb interaction between two parallel, two-dimensional, narrow, and spatially separated layers, when a current I_{drive} is driven through one layer, is studied in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 H. C. W. Tso , D. J. W. Geldart , P. Vasilopoulos

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

We report electrical transport measurements on GaAs/AlGaAs based electron-hole bilayers. These systems are expected to make a transition from a pair of weakly coupled two-dimensional systems to a strongly coupled exciton system as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. A. Seamons , C. P. Morath , J. L. Reno , M. P. Lilly

A treatment of frictional Coulomb drag between two 2-dimensional electron layers in a strong perpendicular magnetic field, within the independent electron picture, is presented. Assuming fully resolved Landau levels, the linear response…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 M. C. Bonsager , K. Flensberg , B. Y-K. Hu , A. -P. Jauho