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Quasi-1D Coulomb Drag in the Nonlinear Regime

Mingyang Zheng1, Rebika Makaju1, Rasul Gazizulin1,2, Alex Levchenko3, Sadhvikas J. Addamane4, and Dominique Laroche1,*

  • *Contact author: dlaroc10@ufl.edu
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236301 – Published 12 June, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/v3dn-bnrp

Abstract

One-dimensional Coulomb drag has been an essential tool to probe the physics of interacting Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids. To date, most experimental work has focused on the linear regime while the predictions for Luttinger liquids beyond the linear response theory remain largely untested. In this Letter, we report measurements of reciprocal momentum transfer induced Coulomb drag between vertically coupled quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires in the nonlinear regime. Measurements were performed at ultralow temperatures between wires only 15 nm apart. Our results reveal a nonlinear dependence of the drag voltage as a function of the drive current superimposed with an oscillatory contribution, in agreement with theoretical predictions for Coulomb drag between Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids. Additionally, the observed current-voltage characteristics exhibit a nonmonotonic temperature dependence, further corroborating the presence of non-Fermi-liquid behavior in our system. These findings are observed both in the single and in the multiple subband regimes and in the presence of disorder, extending the onset of this behavior beyond the clean single channel Tomonaga-Luttinger regime where the predictions were originally formulated.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 236301– Published 12 June, 2025
  • Received 23 October 2024
  • Revised 12 March 2025
  • Accepted 15 May 2025
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