On the temperature dependence of ballistic Coulomb drag in nanowires

We have investigated within Fermi liquid theory the dependence of Coulomb drag current in a passive quantum wire on the applied voltage V across an active wire and on the temperature T for any values of eV/kBT. We assume that the bottoms of the 1D minibands in both wires almost coincide with the Fermi level. We conclude that: (1) within a certain temperature interval the drag current can be a descending function of the temperature T; (2) the experimentally observed temperature dependence T−0.77 of the drag current can be interpreted within the framework of Fermi liquid theory; (3) at relatively high applied voltages the drag current saturates as a function of the applied voltage; and (4) the screening of the electron potential by metallic gate electrodes can be of importance.