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The conductance of interacting nano-wires

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-07 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

The conductance of one-dimensional nano-wires of interacting electrons connected to non-interacting leads is calculated in the linear response regime. Two different approaches are used: a many-body Green function technique and a relation to the persistent current recently proposed based on results of the non-interacting case. The conductance is evaluated using the functional renormalization group method and the density matrix renormalization group algorithm. Our results give a strong indication that the idea of obtaining the conductance from the persistent current holds for interacting systems.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0210515,
  title  = {The conductance of interacting nano-wires},
  author = {V. Meden and U. Schollwoeck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0210515},
  year   = {2009}
}

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version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B