English

Resonant Multi-Lead Point-Contact Tunneling

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We analyze a model of resonant point-contact tunneling between multiple Luttinger liquid leads. The model is a variant of the multi-channel Kondo model and can be related to the quantum Brownian motion of a particle on lattices with π\pi-flux through each plaquette (in the 3-lead case, it is a honeycomb lattice with π\pi-flux). By comparing the perturbative and instanton gas expansions, we find a duality property of the model. At the boundary, this duality exchanges Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions on the Tomonaga-Luttinger bosons which describe the leads; in the bulk, it exchanges the `momentum' and `winding' modes of these bosons. Over a certain range of Luttinger liquid parameter, gg, a novel non-trivial intermediate coupling fixed point controls the low-energy physics. The finite conductance at this fixed point can be exactly computed for two special values of gg. For larger values of gg, there is a stable fixed point at strong coupling which has enhanced conductance resulting from an analogue of Andreev reflection at the point contact.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9710305,
  title  = {Resonant Multi-Lead Point-Contact Tunneling},
  author = {C. Nayak and Matthew P. A. Fisher and A. W. W. Ludwig and H. -H. Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9710305},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

18 pages, LaTeX, 5 figures, psfig

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