Anomalous Drag in Electron-Hole Condensates with Granulated Order
- 11 October 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 127 (16), 166801
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.127.166801
Abstract
We explain the strong interlayer drag resistance observed at low temperatures in bilayer electron-hole systems in terms of an interplay between local electron-hole-pair condensation and disorder-induced carrier density variations. Smooth disorder drives the condensate into a granulated phase in which interlayer coherence is established only in well-separated and disconnected regions, or grains, within which the densities of electrons and holes accidentally match. The drag resistance is then dominated by Andreev-like scattering of charge carriers between layers at the grains that transfers momentum between layers. We show that this scenario can account for the observed dependence of the drag resistivity on temperature and, on average, charge imbalance between layers.Funding Information
- Australian Research Council
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE-FG02-02ER45958)
- Welch Foundation (F-1473)
- Army Research Office (W911NF-17-1-0312)
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