Critical currents and giant non-dissipative drag for superfluid electron-hole pairs in quantum Hall multilayers

TL;DR

This paper investigates superfluid electron-hole pairs in quantum Hall multilayers, revealing large non-dissipative drag effects and critical currents dependent on interlayer interactions, advancing understanding of two-component superfluid systems.

Contribution

It provides a theoretical analysis of superfluid properties, critical parameters, and giant non-dissipative drag in quantum Hall multilayer systems, a novel solid-state realization of two-component superfluids.

Findings

Critical currents depend on each other.

Maximum critical current occurs when the other component's current is zero.

Drag factor can reach about 10%, much larger than in atomic Bose gases.

Abstract

Superfluid properties of electron-hole pairs in a quantum Hall four-layer system are investigated. The system is considered as a solid state realization of a two-component superfluid Bose gas with dipole-dipole interaction. One superfluid component is formed in the top bilayer and the other component - in the bottom one. We obtain the dispersion equation for the collective mode spectrum and compute the critical parameters (the critical interlayer distance and the critical currents) versus the filling factor. We find that the critical currents of the components depend on each other. The maximum critical current of a given component can be reached if the current of the other component is equal to zero. The non-dissipative drag effect between the components is studied. It is shown that in the system considered the drag factor is very large. Under appropriate conditions it can be about 10 per sent, that is at least in three order larder than one predicted for two-component atomic Bose gases.