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Casimir Frictional Drag Force in Low-Dimensional Systems

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Electromagnetic Fluctuations at the Nanoscale

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Coulomb drag is a frictional coupling between electric currents flowing in spatially separated conducting layers. It is caused by interlayer electron-electron interactions. The frictional drag between quantum wells makes it possible to probe directly the inter-particle interaction.

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Correspondence to Aleksandr I. Volokitin .

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Volokitin, A.I., Persson, B.N. (2017). Casimir Frictional Drag Force in Low-Dimensional Systems. In: Electromagnetic Fluctuations at the Nanoscale. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53474-8_9

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