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Tunneling into Nonequilibrium Luttinger Liquid with Impurity

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-05-14 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We evaluate tunneling rates into/from a voltage biased quantum wire containing weak backscattering defect. Interacting electrons in such a wire form a true nonequilibrium state of the Luttinger liquid (LL). This state is created due to inelastic electron backscattering leading to the emission of nonequilibrium plasmons with typical frequency ωU\hbar \omega \leq U. The tunneling rates are split into two edges. The tunneling exponent at the Fermi edge is positive and equals that of the equilibrium LL, while the exponent at the side edge EFUE_F-U is negative if Coulomb interaction is not too strong.

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@article{arxiv.0910.3917,
  title  = {Tunneling into Nonequilibrium Luttinger Liquid with Impurity},
  author = {Stéphane Ngo Dinh and Dmitry A. Bagrets and Alexander D. Mirlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.3917},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4+ pages, 5 figures