Coulomb drag in compressible quantum Hall states

Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

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11 pages, REVTeX with two Postscript figures

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10.1103/PhysRevB.56.4013

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 layer is at, or close to, $\nu=1/2$. Discussing the coupling between the layers in purely electronic terms, we show that the unique dependence of the longitudinal conductivity on wave-vector, observed in surface acoustic waves experiments, leads to a very slow decay of density fluctuations. Consequently, it has a crucial effect on the Coulomb drag, as manifested in the transresistivity $\rho_D$. We find that the transresistivity is very large compared to its typical values at zero magnetic field, and that its temperature dependence is unique -- $\rho_D \propto T^{4/3}$. For filling factors at or close to $1/4$ and $3/4$ the transresistivity has the same $T$-dependence, and is larger than at $\nu = 1/2$. We calculate $\rho_D$ for the $\nu=3/2$ case and propose that it might shed light on the spin polarization of electrons at $\nu=3/2$. We compare our results to recent calculations of $\rho_D$ at $\nu=1/2$ where a composite fermion approach was used and a $T^{4/3}$-dependence was obtained. We conclude that what appears in the composite fermion language to be drag induced by Chern-Simons interaction is, physically, electronic Coulomb drag.

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