# Coulomb drag in topological materials

## TL;DR

This paper investigates Coulomb drag phenomena in topological insulator films hosting Dirac fermions, exploring effects in both magnetic and non-magnetic cases, and analyzing the influence of the anomalous Hall effect on drag resistivity.

## Contribution

It provides a theoretical analysis of Coulomb drag in topological insulator layers, including both massless and massive Dirac fermions, with new insights into the role of the anomalous Hall effect.

## Key findings

- Coulomb drag resistivity depends on temperature and electron density.
- Magnetic topological insulators show significant anomalous Hall effect influence.
- Analytical and numerical models elucidate the dynamics of spin density and drag effects.

## Abstract

Dirac fermions are at the forefront of modern condensed matter physics research. They are known to occur in materials as diverse as graphene, topological insulators, and transition metal dichalcogenides, while closely related Weyl fermions have been discovered in other materials. They have been predicted to lend themselves to a variety of technological applications, while the recent prediction and discovery of the quantized anomalous Hall effect of massive Dirac fermions is regarded as a potential gateway towards low-energy electronics. Some materials hosting Dirac fermions are natural platforms for interlayer coherence effects such as Coulomb drag and exciton condensation. The top and bottom surfaces of a thin topological insulator film provide such a prototype system. Here we describe recent insights into Coulomb drag between two layers of Dirac fermions relying primarily on topological insulator films as a minimal model. We consider both non-magnetic topological insulators, hosting massless Dirac fermions, and magnetic topological insulators, in which the fermions are massive. We discuss in general terms the dynamics of the thin-film spin density matrix, outlining numerical results and approximate analytical expressions where appropriate for the drag resistivity \r{ho}D at low temperatures and low electron densities. In magnetic topological insulators with out-of-plane magnetizations in both the active and passive layers we analyze the role of the anomalous Hall effect in Coulomb drag.