553 research outputs found
Nonequilibrium electron spectroscopy of Luttinger liquids
Understanding the effects of nonequilibrium on strongly interacting quantum
systems is a challenging problem in condensed matter physics. In dimensions
greater than one, interacting electrons can often be understood within
Fermi-liquid theory where low-energy excitations are weakly interacting
quasiparticles. On the contrary, electrons in one dimension are known to form a
strongly-correlated phase of matter called a Luttinger liquid (LL), whose
low-energy excitations are collective density waves, or plasmons, of the
electron gas. Here we show that spectroscopy of locally injected high-energy
electrons can be used to probe energy relaxation in the presence of such strong
correlations. For detection energies near the injection energy, the electron
distribution is described by a power law whose exponent depends in a continuous
way on the Luttinger parameter, and energy relaxation can be attributed to
plasmon emission. For a chiral LL as realized at the edge of a fractional
quantum Hall state, the distribution function grows linearly with the distance
to the injection energy, independent of filling fraction.Comment: 4+ pages, 3 figure
Bulk-edge coupling in the non-abelian quantum Hall interferometer
Recent schemes for experimentally probing non-abelian statistics in the
quantum Hall effect are based on geometries where current-carrying
quasiparticles flow along edges that encircle bulk quasiparticles, which are
localized. Here we consider one such scheme, the Fabry-Perot interferometer,
and analyze how its interference patterns are affected by a coupling that
allows tunneling of neutral Majorana fermions between the bulk and edge. While
at weak coupling this tunneling degrades the interference signal, we find that
at strong coupling, the bulk quasiparticle becomes essentially absorbed by the
edge and the intereference signal is fully restored.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figur
Interference, Coulomb blockade, and the identification of non-abelian quantum Hall states
We examine the relation between different electronic transport phenomena in a
Fabry-Perot interferometer in the fractional quantum Hall regime. In
particular, we study the way these phenomena reflect the statistics of quantum
Hall quasi-particles. For two series of states we examine, one abelian and one
non-abelian, we show that the information that may be obtained from
measurements of the lowest order interference pattern in an open Fabry-Perot
interferometer is identical to the one that may be obtained from the
temperature dependence of Coulomb blockade peaks in a closed interferometer. We
argue that despite the similarity between the experimental signatures of the
two series of states, interference and Coulomb blockade measurements are likely
to be able to distinguish between abelian and non-abelian states, due to the
sensitivity of the abelian states to local perturbations, to which the
non-abelian states are insensitive.Comment: 10 pages. Published versio
Partition Functions of Non-Abelian Quantum Hall States
Partition functions of edge excitations are obtained for non-Abelian Hall
states in the second Landau level, such as the anti-Read-Rezayi state, the
Bonderson-Slingerland hierarchy and the Wen non-Abelian fluid, as well as for
the non-Abelian spin-singlet state. The derivation is straightforward and
unique starting from the non-Abelian conformal field theory data and solving
the modular invariance conditions. The partition functions provide a complete
account of the excitation spectrum and are used to describe experiments of
Coulomb blockade and thermopower.Comment: 42 pages, 3 figures; published version; minor corrections to sect.
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Scanning Gate Spectroscopy of transport across a Quantum Hall Nano-Island
We explore transport across an ultra-small Quantum Hall Island (QHI) formed
by closed quan- tum Hall edge states and connected to propagating edge channels
through tunnel barriers. Scanning gate microscopy and scanning gate
spectroscopy are used to first localize and then study a single QHI near a
quantum point contact. The presence of Coulomb diamonds in the spectroscopy
con- firms that Coulomb blockade governs transport across the QHI. Varying the
microscope tip bias as well as current bias across the device, we uncover the
QHI discrete energy spectrum arising from electronic confinement and we extract
estimates of the gradient of the confining potential and of the edge state
velocity.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figure
Nonlinear ac conductivity of one-dimensional Mott insulators
We discuss a semiclassical calculation of low energy charge transport in
one-dimensional (1d) insulators with a focus on Mott insulators, whose charge
degrees of freedom are gapped due to the combination of short range
interactions and a periodic lattice potential. Combining RG and instanton
methods, we calculate the nonlinear ac conductivity and interpret the result in
terms of multi-photon absorption. We compare the result of the semiclassical
calculation for interacting systems to a perturbative, fully quantum mechanical
calculation of multi-photon absorption in a 1d band insulator and find good
agreement when the number of simultaneously absorbed photons is large.Comment: Dedicated to Thomas Nattermann on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
To appear in JSTAT. 5 pages, 2 figure
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