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Comment on ``Enhancement of the Tunneling Density of States in Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquids''
In a recent Physical Review Letter, Oreg and Finkel'stein (OF) have
calculated the electron density of states (DOS) for tunneling into a repulsive
Luttinger liquid close to the location of an impurity. The result of their
calculation is a DOS which is enhanced with respect to the pure system, and
moreover diverging for not too strong repulsion. In this Comment we intend to
show that OF's calculation suffers from a subtle flaw which, being corrected,
results into a DOS not only vanishing at zero frequency but in fact suppressed
in comparison with the DOS of a pure Luttinger liquid.Comment: 1 page, Revte
Statistical properties of localisation--delocalisation transition in one dimension
We study a one-dimensional model of disordered electrons (also relevant for
random spin chains), which exhibits a delocalisation transition at
half-filling. Exact probability distribution functions for the Wigner time and
transmission coefficient are calculated. We identify and distinguish those
features of probability densities that are due to rare, trapping configurations
of the random potential from those which are due to the proximity to the
delocalisation transition.Comment: 4 pages, RevTeX, 1 fi
Bose-glass, superfluid, and rung-Mott phases of hard-core bosons in disordered two-leg ladders
By means of Monte Carlo techniques, we study the role of disorder on a system
of hard-core bosons in a two-leg ladder with both intra-chain () and
inter-chain () hoppings. We find that the phase diagram as a function
of the boson density, disorder strength, and is far from being
trivial. This contrasts the case of spin-less fermions where standard
localization arguments apply and an Anderson-localized phase pervades the whole
phase diagram. A compressible Bose-glass phase always intrudes between the Mott
insulator with zero (or one) bosons per site and the superfluid that is
stabilized for weak disorder. At half filling, there is a direct transition
between a (gapped) rung-Mott insulator and a Bose glass, which is driven by
exponentially rare regions where disorder is suppressed. Finally, by doping the
rung-Mott insulator, a direct transition to the superfluid is possible only in
the clean system, whereas the Mott phase is always surrounded by the a Bose
glass when disorder is present. The phase diagram based on our numerical
evidence is finally reported.Comment: 8 pages, 7 figure
Near Infrared Spectroscopy of High Redshift Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Disappearing Narrow Line Regions and the Role of Accretion
We present new near infrared spectroscopic measurements for 29 luminous
high-z quasars and use the data to discuss the size and other properties of the
NLRs in those sources. The high resolution spectra have been used to carefully
model the Fe II blends and to provide reliable [O III], Fe II and Hb
measurements. We find that about 2/3 of all high luminosity sources show strong
[O III] lines while the remaining objects show no or very weak such line. While
weak [O III] emitters are also found among lower luminosity AGN, we argue that
the implications for very high luminosity objects are different. In particular,
we suggest that the averaging of these two populations in other works gave rise
to claims of a Baldwin relationship in [O III] which is not confirmed by our
data. We also argue that earlier proposed relations of the type R_NLR \propto
L_[O III]^{1/2}, where R_NLR is the NLR radius, are theoretically sound yet
they must break down for R_NLR exceeding a few kpc. This suggests that the NLR
properties in luminous sources are different from those observed in nearby AGN.
In particular, we suggest that some sources lost their very large, dynamically
unbound NLR while others are in a phase of violent star-forming events that
produce a large quantity of high density gas in the central kpc. This gas is
ionized and excited by the central radiation source and its spectroscopic
properties may be different from those observed in nearby, lower luminosity
NLRs. We also discuss the dependence of EW(Hb) and Fe II/Hb on L, M_BH, and
accretion rate for a large sample of AGNs. The strongest dependence of the two
quantities is on the accretion rate and the Fe II/Hb correlation is probably
due to the EW(Hb) dependence on accretion rate. We show the most extreme values
measured so far of Fe II/Hb and address its correlation with EW([O III]).Comment: 10 pages (emulateapj), 9 figures. Accepted by Ap
Electron tunneling into a quantum wire in the Fabry-Perot regime
We study a gated quantum wire contacted to source and drain electrodes in the
Fabry-Perot regime. The wire is also coupled to a third terminal (tip), and we
allow for an asymmetry of the tip tunneling amplitudes of right and left moving
electrons. We analyze configurations where the tip acts as an electron injector
or as a voltage-probe, and show that the transport properties of this
three-terminal set-up exhibit very rich physical behavior. For a
non-interacting wire we find that a tip in the voltage-probe configuration
affects the source-drain transport in different ways, namely by suppressing the
conductance, by modulating the Fabry-Perot oscillations, and by reducing their
visibility. The combined effect of electron electron interaction and finite
length of the wire, accounted for by the inhomogeneous Luttinger liquid model,
leads to significantly modified predictions as compared to models based on
infinite wires. We show that when the tip injects electrons asymmetrically the
charge fractionalization induced by interaction cannot be inferred from the
asymmetry of the currents flowing in source and drain. Nevertheless interaction
effects are visible as oscillations in the non-linear tip-source and tip-drain
conductances. Important differences with respect to a two-terminal set-up
emerge, suggesting new strategies for the experimental investigation of
Luttinger liquid behavior.Comment: 27 pages, 10 figure
Interplay of Orbital Degeneracy and Superconductivity in a Molecular Conductor
We study electron propagation in a molecular lattice model. Each molecular
site involves doubly degenerate electronic states coupled to doubly degenerate
molecular vibration, leading to a so--called E-e type of Jahn-Teller
Hamiltonian. For weak electron-phonon coupling and in the anti-adiabatic limit
we find that the orbital degeneracy induces an intersite pairing mechanism
which is absent in the standard non-degenerate polaronic model. In this limit
we analyse the model in the presence of an additional on-site repulsion and we
determine, within BCS mean field theory, the region of stability of
superconductivity. In one dimension, where powerful analytical techniques are
available, we are able to calculate the phase diagram of the model both for
weak and for strong electron-phonon coupling.Comment: 11 pages, REVTEX style, 3 compressed figures adde
Phases of two coupled Luttinger liquids
A model of two interacting one--dimensional fermion systems (``Luttinger
liquids'') coupled by single--particle hopping is investigated. Bosonization
allows a number of exact statements to be made. In particular, for forward
scattering only, the model contains two massless boson sectors and an Ising
type critical sector. For general interactions, there is a spin excitation gap
and either s-- or d--type pairing fluctuations dominate. It is shown that the
same behavior is also found for strong interactions. A possible scenario for
the crossover to a Fermi liquid in a many chain system is discussed.Comment: revised version, some changes, 11 pages, no figures, RexTeX3.
One-Particle Excitation of the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model
The real part of the self-energy of interacting two-dimensional electrons has
been calculated in the t-matrix approximation. It is shown that the forward
scattering results in an anomalous term leading to the vanishing
renormalization factor of the one-particle Green function, which is a
non-perturbative effect of the interaction U. The present result is a
microscopic demonstration of the claim by Anderson based on the conventional
many-body theory. The effect of the damping of the interacting electrons, which
has been ignored in reaching above conclusion, has been briefly discussed.Comment: 7 pages, LaTeX, 1 figure, uses jpsj.sty, to be published in J. Phys.
Soc. Jpn. 66 No. 3 (1997
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