Counterflow measurements in strongly correlated GaAs hole bilayers: evidence for electron-hole pairing

TL;DR

This paper investigates counterflow transport in strongly correlated GaAs hole bilayers, providing evidence for electron-hole pairing at low temperatures through vanishing resistances and anomalous Hall behavior.

Contribution

It presents experimental evidence of electron-hole pairing in GaAs bilayer hole systems using counterflow measurements at very low temperatures.

Findings

Counterflow resistances vanish at low temperatures in the quantum Hall state.

Hall counterflow resistance shows a deep minimum at relatively high temperatures (~600mK).

Hall resistance is significantly smaller than longitudinal resistivity at the minimum.

Abstract

We study interacting GaAs bilayer hole systems, with very small interlayer tunneling, in a counterflow geometry where equal currents are passed in opposite directions in the two, independently contacted layers. At low temperatures, both the longitudinal and Hall counterflow resistances tend to vanish in the quantum Hall state at total bilayer filling $\nu=1$, demonstrating the pairing of oppositely charged carriers in opposite layers. The temperature dependence of the counterflow Hall resistance is anomalous compared to the other transport coefficients: even at relatively high temperatures ($\sim$600mK), it develops a very deep minimum, with a value that is about an order of magnitude smaller than the longitudinal counterflow resistivity.