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Generation of spin-polarized currents in Zeeman-split Tomonaga-Luttinger models

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

In a magnetic field an interacting electron gas in one dimension may be described as a Tomonaga-Luttinger model comprising two components with different Fermi velocities due to the Zeeman splitting. This destroys the spin-charge separation, and even the quantities such as the density-density correlation involve spin and charge critical exponents (K). Specifically, the ratio of the up-spin and down-spin conductivities in a dirty system diverges at low temperatures like an inverse power of the temperature, T(KK)T^{-(K_{\uparrow}-K_{\downarrow})}, resulting in a spin-polarized current. In finite, clean systems the conductance becomes different for up- and down-spins as another manifestation of the electron-electron interaction.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9510125,
  title  = {Generation of spin-polarized currents in Zeeman-split Tomonaga-Luttinger models},
  author = {Takashi Kimura and Kazuhiko Kuroki and Hideo Aoki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9510125},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, RevTeX file, 3 figures available on request from [email protected]