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We generalize the fermionic renormalization group method to describe analytically transport through a double barrier structure in a one-dimensional system. Focusing on the case of weakly interacting electrons, we investigate thoroughly the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 D. G. Polyakov , I. V. Gornyi

Motivated by the recent twisted MoTe$_2$ experiment [arXiv:2601.18508], we develop a disordered interacting edge theory of a fractional topological insulator at $\nu_{\text{tot}}=4/3$, consisting of two time-reversal-conjugated $\nu=2/3$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-12 Yang-Zhi Chou , Sankar Das Sarma

Topological electric quadrupole is a recently proposed concept that extends the theory of electric polarization of crystals to higher orders. Such a quadrupole phase supports topological states localized on both edges and corners. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Feng Liu , Hai-Yao Deng , Katsunori Wakabayashi

In the two-dimensional case the transition between ordinary and topological insulator states can be described by a massive Dirac model with the mass term changing its sign at the transition point. We theoretically investigate how such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz

We examine the effect of interactions between the electrons on the conductances of some systems of quantum wires with different geometries. The systems include a wire with a stub in the middle, a wire containing a ring which can enclose a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-12-03 Sourin Das , Sumathi Rao , Diptiman Sen

We present a renormalization group (RG) analysis of a fermionic "hot spot" model of interacting electrons on the square lattice. We truncate the Fermi surface excitations to linearly dispersing quasiparticles in the vicinity of eight hot…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-17 Seth Whitsitt , Subir Sachdev

We study the transport properties of a hybrid junction made of a ferromagnetic lead in electrical connection with the helical edge modes of a two-dimensional topological insulator. In this system, the time reversal symmetry, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Francesco Romeo

In this work, a quantum dot couples to two helical edge states of a 2D topological insulator through weak tunnelings is studied. We show that if the electron interactions on the edge states are repulsive, with Luttinger liquid parameter $ K…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. T. Law , C. Y. Seng , Patrick A. Lee , T. K. Ng

We analyze the time evolution of spin-polarized electron wave packets injected into the edge states of a two-dimensional topological insulator. In the presence of electron interactions, the system is described as a helical Luttinger liquid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Alessio Calzona , Matteo Carrega , Giacomo Dolcetto , Maura Sassetti

Topology in condensed matter physics manifests itself in the emergence of edge or surface states protected by underlying symmetries. We review two-dimensional topological insulators whose one-dimensional edge states are characterized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-01 Giacomo Dolcetto , Maura Sassetti , Thomas L. Schmidt

We study coherent spin transport through helical edge states of topological insulator tunnel-coupled to metallic leads. We demonstrate that unpolarized incoming electron beam acquires finite polarization after transmission through such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 R. A. Niyazov , D. N. Aristov , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

The helical state is a fundamental prerequisite for many spintronics applications and Majorana zero mode engineering in nanoscopic semiconductors. Its existence in quasi-one-dimensional nanowires was predicted to be detectable as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 P. Wójcik , D. Sticlet , P. Szumniak , M. P. Nowak

We show that the renormalization group (RG) approach to interacting fermions at one-loop order recovers Fermi liquid theory results when the forward scattering zero sound (ZS) and exchange (ZS$'$) channels are both taken into account. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 N. Dupuis , G. Chitov

The physics of Majorana fermion occurs at the edge and interface of many one-dimensional quantum many body system with gapped excitation spectrum. We present the renormalization group equations for strongly interacting helical liquid. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Sujit Sarkar

We discuss the conductance of quantum wires (QW) in terms of the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL) theory. We use explicitly the charge fractionalization scheme which results from the chiral symmetry of the model. We suggest that results of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. -I. Imura , K. -V. Pham , P. Lederer , F. Piechon

We study the conductance of a time-reversal symmetric helical electronic edge coupled antiferromagnetically to a magnetic impurity, employing analytical and numerical approaches. The impurity can reduce the perfect conductance $G_0$ of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-15 Yuval Vinkler-Aviv , Daniel May , Frithjof B. Anders

The edge states of a two-dimensional quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator form a one-dimensional helical metal which is responsible for the transport property of the QSH insulator. Conceptually, such a one-dimensional helical metal can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Yongjin Jiang , Feng Lu , Feng Zhai , Tony Low , Jiangping Hu

We study electron and spin transport in interacting quantum wires contacted by noninteracting leads. We theoretically model the wire and junctions as an inhomogeneous chain where the parameters at the junction change on the scale of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Denis Morath , Nicholas Sedlmayr , Jesko Sirker , Sebastian Eggert

In one-dimensional quantum wires the interplay of electron correlations and impurities strongly influences the low-energy physics. The diversity of energy scales and the competition of correlations in interacting Fermi systems can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-02 Sabine Andergassen

We derive an expansion of the functional renormalization (fRG) equations that treats the frequency and momentum dependencies of the vertices in a systematic manner. The scheme extends the channel-decomposed fRG equations to the frequency…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-07 Nahom K. Yirga , David K. Campbell