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Non-Ohmic Coulomb drag in the ballistic electron transport regime

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 نشر من قبل M. I. Muradov
 تاريخ النشر 2000
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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We work out a theory of the Coulomb drag current created under the ballistic transport regime in a one-dimensional nanowire by a ballistic non-Ohmic current in a nearby parallel nanowire. As in the Ohmic case, we predict sharp oscillation of the drag current as a function of gate voltage or the chemical potential of electrons. We study also dependence of the drag current on the voltage V across the driving wire. For relatively large values of V the drag current is proportional to V^2.

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