Coulomb drag effect in coupled quantum dots
Channel: Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (IFISC)
Date: 2016-04-06

- By: Rosa López, IFISC
- Date: 2016-04-06 14:30:00
- Description: In Coulomb drag, a current flowing in one conductor can induce a voltage across an adjacent conductor via the Coulomb interaction. The mechanisms yielding drag effects are not always understood, even though drag effects are sufficiently general to be seen in many low-dimensional systems. I will discuss the experimental observation for the Coulomb drag in a Coulomb-coupled double quantum dot and, the theoretical arguments to explain it. I will explain how cotunneling processes are the essential transport mechanism to obtain a correct qualitative understanding of the drag behavior in the experiments.