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We consider resonant transmission through a finite-length quantum wire connected to leads via finite transparency junctions. The coherent electron transport is strongly modified by the Coulomb interaction. The low-temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. B. Kopnin , Y. M. Galperin , V. M. Vinokur

A few exactly solvable interacting quantum many-body problems with impurities were previously reported to exhibit unusual features such as non-localization and absence of backscattering. In this work we consider the use of these integrable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-18 Marion Moliner , Peter Schmitteckert

We present results for the fluctuations of the displacement of a tracer particle on a planar lattice pulled by a step force in the presence of impenetrable, immobile obstacles. The fluctuations perpendicular to the applied force are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-06 Sebastian Leitmann , Thomas Schwab , Thomas Franosch

We show that by integrating out the electric field and incorporating proper boundary conditions, a semiclassical Boltzmann equation can describe electron transport properties, continuously from the diffusive to ballistic regimes. General…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-25 H. Geng , W. Y. Deng , Y. J. Ren , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

The paper addresses the problem whether and how it is possible to detect the Luttinger-liquid behavior from the $IV$ curves for tunneling to 1D or quasi-1D conductors. The power-law non-ohmic $IV$ curve, which is usually considered as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 E. B. Sonin

Strange metals are highly entangled gapless states of matter that exhibit anomalous transport, such as linear in temperature resistivity, over more than a decade of temperature. Why a single power law should be so robust is an open…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-18 Yen-Wen Lu , Michael Mulligan

Tunneling through a localized barrier in a one-dimensional interacting electron gas has been studied recently using Luttinger liquid techniques. Stable phases with zero or unit transmission occur, as well as critical points with universal…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Eugene Wong , Ian Affleck

We present a theory for the nonlinear current-voltage characteristics of a ballistic quantum constriction. Nonlinear features first develop because of above-barrier reflection from the potential profile, created by impurities in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 I. E. Aronov , M. Jonson , A. M. Zagoskin

We introduce a path-integral approach that allows to compute charge density oscillations in a Luttinger liquid with impurities. We obtain an explicit expression for the envelope of Friedel oscillations in the presence of arbitrary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Victoria I. Fernández , Carlos M. Naón

We develop a theory of tunneling spectroscopy of interacting electrons in a non-equilibrium quantum wire coupled to reservoirs. The problem is modelled as an out-of-equilibrium Luttinger liquid with spatially dependent interaction. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-09 D. B. Gutman , Yuval Gefen , A. D. Mirlin

We study the nonequlibrium transport through a quantum dot weakly coupled to Luttinger liquids (LL). A general current expression is derived by using nonequilibrium Green function method. Then a special case of the dot with only a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yi-feng Yang , Tsung-han Lin

We present a detailed numerical study of the electronic properties of single-layer graphene with resonant ("hydrogen") impurities and vacancies within a framework of noninteracting tight-binding model on a honeycomb lattice. The algorithms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-29 Shengjun Yuan , Hans De Raedt , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

The conductance of a waveguide containing finite number of periodically placed identical point-like impurities is investigated. It has been calculated as a function of both the impurity strength and the number of impurities using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Cserti , G. Szálka , G. Vattay

We use the technique of bosonization to understand a variety of recent experimental results on the conductivity of a quantum wire. The quantum wire is taken to be a finite-length Luttinger liquid connected on two sides to semi-infinite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Siddhartha Lal , Sumathi Rao , Diptiman Sen

We study tunneling between two nearby cleaved edge quantum wires in a perpendicular magnetic field. Due to Coulomb forces between electrons, the wires form a strongly-interacting pair of Luttinger liquids. We calculate the low-temperature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Carpentier , C. Peca , L. Balents

The Landauer transport formulation is generalized to the case of a dynamic scatterer with an arbitrary energy level structure, weakly coupled to a long ideal noninteracting wire. The two-terminal linear conductance of the device is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Yoseph Imry , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

Correlated, or extended, impurities play an important role in the transport properties of dirty metals. Here, we examine, in the framework of a tight-binding lattice, the transmission of a single electron through an array of correlated…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Wonkee Kim , L. Covaci , F. Marsiglio

The finite-size Tomonaga-Luttinger Hamiltonian with an arbitrary potential is mapped onto a non-interacting Fermi gas with renormalized potential. This is done by means of flow equations for Hamiltonians and is valid for small…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Stauber

The non-linear current-voltage characteristic of a tunnel junction between two Luttinger systems is calculated for an interaction with finite range. Coulomb blockade features are found. The dissipative resistance, the capacitance and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Maura Sassetti , Gianaurelio Cuniberti , Bernhard Kramer

We present non-perturbative solutions for multi-level quantum dot structures coupled to interacting one-dimensional electrodes out of equilibrium. At a special correlation strength the Hamiltonian can be mapped to the Kondo problem which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Komnik , A. O. Gogolin