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Switching between attractive and repulsive Coulomb-interaction-mediated drag in an ambipolar GaAs/AlGaAs bilayer device

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Authors

Zheng, B 
Croxall, AF 
Sfigakis, F 

Abstract

We present measurements of Coulomb drag in an ambipolar GaAs/AlGaAs double quantum well structure that can be configured as both an electron-hole bilayer and a hole-hole bilayer, with an insulating barrier of only 10 nm between the two quantum wells. The Coulomb drag resistivity is a direct measure of the strength of the interlayer particle-particle interactions. We explore the strongly interacting regime of low carrier densities (2D interaction parameter rs up to 14). Our ambipolar device design allows comparison between the effects of the attractive electron-hole and repulsive hole-hole interactions, and also shows the effects of the different effective masses of electrons and holes in GaAs.

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Keywords

cond-mat.mes-hall, cond-mat.mes-hall

Journal Title

Applied Physics Letters

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Journal ISSN

0003-6951
1077-3118

Volume Title

108

Publisher

AIP Publishing
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/J003417/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/H017720/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K004077/1)
This work was financially supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. A.F.C. acknowledges financial support from Trinity College, Cambridge, and IF from Toshiba Research Europe.