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    Frictional magnetodrag between spatially separated two-dimensional electron systems: Coulomb versus phonon mediated electron-electron interaction

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    We study the frictional drag due to Coulomb and phonon mediated electron-electron interaction in a double layer electron system exposed to a perpendicular magnetic field. Within the random phase approximation we calculate the dispersion relation of the intra Landau level magnetoplasmons at finite temperatures and distinguish their contribution to the magnetodrag. We calculate the transresistivity ρDrag\rho_{Drag} as a function of magnetic field BB, temperature TT, and interlayer spacing Λ\Lambda for a matched electron density. For Λ=200\Lambda =200 nm we find that ρDrag\rho_{Drag} is solely due to phonon exchange and shows no double-peak structure as a function of BB. For Λ=30\Lambda =30 nm, ρDrag\rho_{Drag} shows the double-peak structure and is mainly due to Coulomb interaction. The value of ρDrag\rho_{Drag} is about 0.3 Ω\Omega at T=2 K and for the half-filled second Lanadau level, which is about 13 times larger than the value for Λ=200\Lambda =200 nm. At lower edge of the temperature interval from 0.1 to 8 K, ρDrag/T2\rho_{Drag}/ T^{2} remains finite for Λ=30\Lambda =30 nm while it tends to zero for Λ=200\Lambda =200 nm. Near the upper edge of this interval, ρDrag\rho_{Drag} for Λ=30\Lambda =30 nm is approximately linear in TT while for Λ=200\Lambda =200 nm it decreases slowly in TT. Therefore, the peak of ρDrag/T2\rho_{Drag}/ T^{2} is very sharp for Λ=200\Lambda =200 nm. This strikingly different magnetic field and temperature dependence of ρDrag\rho_{Drag} ascribe we mainly to the weak screening effect at large interlayer separations.Comment: replaced with revised versio
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