Coulomb drag in metal monochalcogenides double-layer structures with Mexican-hat band dispersions

TL;DR

This paper theoretically investigates Coulomb drag and plasmon modes in double-layer GaS monolayers with Mexican-hat band structures, revealing how temperature, density, and layer separation influence these phenomena.

Contribution

It provides a detailed theoretical analysis of Coulomb drag and plasmon behavior in Mexican-hat band structured monolayers, highlighting unique dependencies and comparisons with other materials.

Findings

Drag resistivity decreases exponentially with layer separation.

Plasmon energies depend on density as p^{0.5} and on separation as d^{0.2} or d^{0.1}.

Drag resistivity varies with temperature as T^{2}/p^{4} at low T.

Abstract

We theoretically study the Coulomb drag resistivity and plasmon modes behavior for a system composed of two parallel p-type doped GaS monolayers with Mexican-hat valence energy band using the Boltzmann transport theory formalism. We investigate the effect of temperature,$\ T$, carrier density,$\ p$, and layer separation,$\ d$, on the plasmon modes and drag resistivity within the energy-independent scattering time approximation. Our results show that the density dependence of plasmon modes can be approximated by$\ p^{0.5}$. Also, the calculations suggest a$\ d^{0.2}$ and a$\ d^{0.1}$ dependencies for the acoustic and optical plasmon energies, respectively. Interestingly, we obtain that the behavior of drag resistivity in the double-layer metal monochalcogenides swings between the behavior of a double-quantum well system with parabolic dispersion and that of a double-quantum wire structure with a large carrier density of states. In particular, the transresistivity value reduces exponentially with increasing the distance between layers. Furthermore, the drag resistivity changes as$\ T^{2}/p^{4}$ ($\ T^{2.8}/p^{4.5}$) at low (intermediate) temperatures. Finally, we compare the drag resistivity as a function of temperature for GaS with other Mexican-hat materials including GaSe and InSe and find that it adopts higher values when the metal monochalcogenide has smaller Mexican-hat height.