Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid with reservoirs in a multi-terminal geometry
Abstract
We propose a formalism which uses boundary conditions imposed on the Luttinger liquid (LL) to describe the transport properties of a LL coupled to reservoirs. The various boundary conditions completely determine linear transport in the joint system reservoirs+LL. As an illustration we consider an exactly solvable microscopic model in a multi-terminal geometry for which such boundary conditions can be explicitly derived; in this model the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism fails: if it were valid, the relation between the conductance matrix elements and the reflection and transmission coefficients could yield negative probabilities. We then apply our formalism to a discussion of shot noise through an impurity in a LL connected to two reservoirs.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0207294,
title = {Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid with reservoirs in a multi-terminal geometry},
author = {K-V Pham and F. Piechon and K-I Imura and P. Lederer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0207294},
year = {2009}
}
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11 pages,4 figures