We show that the interlayer tunneling I--V in double-layer quantum Hall states displays a rich behavior which depends on the relative magnitude of sample size, voltage length scale, current screening, disorder and thermal lengths. For weak tunneling, we predict a negative differential conductance of a power-law shape crossing over to a sharp zero-bias peak. An in-plane magnetic field splits this zero-bias peak, leading instead to a ``derivative'' feature at $V_B(B_{ ||})=2\pi\hbar v B_{ ||}d/e\phi_0$, which gives a direct measure of the dispersion of the Goldstone mode corresponding to the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the double-layer Hall state.
Categories: cond-mat.mes-hall cond-mat.str-el