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Motivated by current interest in strongly correlated quasi-one-dimensional (1D) Luttinger liquids subject to axial confinement, we present a novel density-functional study of few-electron systems confined by power-low external potentials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. H. Abedinpour , M. Polini , Gao Xianlong , M. P. Tosi

The temperature-dependent uniform magnetic susceptibility of interacting electrons in one dimension is calculated using several methods. At low temperature, the renormalization group reaveals that the Luttinger liquid spin susceptibility…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Nélisse , C. Bourbonnais , H. Touchette , Y. M. Vilk , A. -M. S. Tremblay

We investigate a one-dimensional electron liquid with two point scatterers of different strength. In the presence of electron interactions, the nonlinear conductance is shown to depend on the current direction. The resulting asymmetry of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. E. Feldman , S. Scheidl , V. M. Vinokur

Haldane hypothesis about the universality of Luttinger liquid (LL) behavior in conducting one-dimensional (1D) fermion systems is checked numerically for spinless fermion model with next-nearest-neighbor interactions. It is shown that for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 A. K. Zhuravlev , M. I. Katsnelson

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

We consider the effects of Coulomb interactions on single-wall carbon nanotubes using an on-site Hubbard interaction, u. For the (N,N) armchair tubes the low energy theory is shown to be identical to a 2-chain Hubbard model at half-filling,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-28 Leon Balents , Matthew P. A. Fisher

Coulomb drag shot noise has been studied theoretically for 1D interacting electron systems, which are realized e.g. in single-wall nanotubes. We show that under adiabatic coupling to external leads, the Coulomb drag shot noise of two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Trauzettel , R. Egger , H. Grabert

The linear conductance of a carbon nanotube quantum dot in the Wigner molecule regime, coupled to two scanning tunnel microscope tips is inspected. Considering the high temperature regime, the nanotube quantum dot is described by means of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-12 N. Traverso Ziani , F. Cavaliere , M. Sassetti

Thermodynamic and transport properties of a two dimensional circular quantum dot are studied theoretically at zero magnetic field. In the limit of a large confining potential, where the dot spectrum exhibits a shell structure, it is argued…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Paula Rojt , Yigal Meir , Assa Auerbach

Luttinger liquid theory describes one-dimensional electron systems in terms of non-interacting bosonic excitations. In this approximation thermal excitations are decoupled from the current flowing through a quantum wire, and the conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-01 K. A. Matveev , A. V. Andreev

We study the evolution of conductance regimes in carbon nanotubes with doubly degenerate orbitals (``shells'') by controlling the contact transparency within the same sample. For sufficiently open contacts, Kondo behavior is observed for 1,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Makarovski , J. Liu , G. Finkelstein

In single electron tunneling through clean, suspended carbon nanotube devices at low temperature, distinct switching phenomena have regularly been observed. These can be explained via strong interaction of single electron tunneling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-24 D. R. Schmid , P. L. Stiller , C. Strunk , A. K. Hüttel

A periodic potential applied to a nanotube is shown to lock electrons into incompressible states that can form a devil's staircase. Electron interactions result in spectral gaps when the electron density (relative to a half-filled Carbon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitry S. Novikov

In one-dimensional (1D) systems, electronic interactions lead to a breakdown of Fermi liquid theory and the formation of a Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid (TLL). The strength of its many-body correlations can be quantified by a single…

It is shown that the band structure of single-wall semiconducting carbon nanotubes (CNT) is analogous to relativistic description of electrons in vacuum, with the maximum velocity $u$= $10^8$cm/s replacing the light velocity.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wlodek Zawadzki

The conduction of a single-wall carbon nanotube depends on the pitch. If there are an integral number of carbon hexagons per pitch, then the system is periodic along the tube axis and allows "holes" (, and not "electrons",) to move inside…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-30 S. Fujita , S. Moon , Y. Takato , James McNabb , S. Godoy

Recent fluorescence spectroscopy experiments on single wall carbon nanotubes reveal substantial deviations of observed absorption and emission energies from predictions of noninteracting models of the electronic structure. Nonetheless, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele

A quantum Monte Carlo simulation method has been developed and applied to study the critical behavior of a single Kondo impurity in a Luttinger liquid. This numerically exact method has no finite-size limitations and allows to simulate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Reinhold Egger , Andrei Komnik

The electronic structures of zig-zag and arm-chair single-walled carbon nanotubes interacting with a transitional-metal atomic nanowire of Ni have been determined. The Ni nanowire creates a large electron density of states (DOS)at the Fermi…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Nacir Tit , M. W. C. Dharma-wardana

Strongly correlated transport of interacting electrons through the one-dimensional tunnel contact is considered within the Luttinger liquid model of one-dimensional electrodes on arbitrary time scales $ t> \hbar /\Lambda_{g} $. Using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-20 Taras Hutak , Gleb Skorobagatko