638 research outputs found
Transport in Luttinger Liquids
We give a brief introduction to Luttinger liquids and to the phenomena of
electronic transport or conductance in quantum wires. We explain why the
subject of transport in Luttinger liquids is relevant and fascinating and
review some important results on tunneling through barriers in a
one-dimensional quantum wire and the phenomena of persistent currents in
mesoscopic rings. We give a brief description of our own work on transport
through doubly-crossed Luttinger liquids and transport in the Schulz-Shastry
exactly solvable Luttinger-like model.Comment: Latex file, 15 pages, four eps figure
Magnitude and crystalline anisotropy of hole magnetization in (Ga,Mn)As
Theory of hole magnetization Mc in zinc-blende diluted ferromagnetic
semiconductors is developed relaxing the spherical approximation of earlier
approaches. The theory is employed to determine Mc for (Ga,Mn)As over a wide
range of hole concentrations and a number of crystallographic orientations of
Mn magnetization. It is found that anisotropy of Mc is practically negligible
but the obtained magnitude of Mc is significantly greater than that determined
in the spherical approximation. Its sign and value compares favorably with the
results of available magnetization measurements and ferromagnetic resonance
studies.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
Bose-Fermi Mixtures in One Dimension
We analyze the phase stability and the response of a mixture of bosons and
spin-polarized fermions in one dimension (1D). Unlike in 3D, phase separation
happens for low fermion densities. The dynamics of the mixture at low energy is
independent of the spin-statistics of the components, and zero-sound-like modes
exist that are essentially undamped.Comment: 5 pages; 1 figur
A Non-equilibrium STM model for Kondo Resonance on surface
Based on a no-equilibrium STM model, we study Kondo resonance on a surface by
self-consistent calculations. The shapes of tunneling spectra are dependent on
the energy range of tunneling electrons. Our results show that both
energy-cutoff and energy-window of tunneling electrons have significant
influence on the shapes of tunneling spectra. If no energy-cutoff is used, the
Kondo resonances in tunneling spectrum are peaks with the same shapes in the
density of state of absorbed magnetic atoms. This is just the prediction of
Tersoff theory. If we use an energy cutoff to remove high-energy lectrons, a
dip structure will modulate the Kondo resonance peak in the tunneling spectrum.
The real shape of Kondo peak is the mixing of the peak and dip, the so-called
Fano line shape. The method of self-consistent non-equilibrium matrix Green
function is discussed in details.Comment: 11 pages and 8 eps figur
Bosonization of Fermi liquids
We bosonize a Fermi liquid in any number of dimensions in the limit of long
wavelengths. From the bosons we construct a set of coherent states which are
related with the displacement of the Fermi surface due to particle-hole
excitations. We show that an interacting hamiltonian in terms of the original
fermions is quadratic in the bosons. We obtain a path integral representation
for the generating functional which in real time, in the semiclassical limit,
gives the Landau equation for sound waves and in the imaginary time gives us
the correct form of the specific heat for a Fermi liquid even with the
corrections due to the interactions between the fermions. We also discuss the
similarities between our results and the physics of quantum crystals.Comment: 42 pages, RevteX, preprint UIUC (1993
Evaluation of the optical conductivity tensor in terms of contour integrations
For the case of finite life-time broadening the standard Kubo-formula for the
optical conductivity tensor is rederived in terms of Green's functions by using
contour integrations, whereby finite temperatures are accounted for by using
the Fermi-Dirac distribution function. For zero life-time broadening, the
present formalism is related to expressions well-known in the literature.
Numerical aspects of how to calculate the corresponding contour integrals are
also outlined.Comment: 8 pages, Latex + 2 figure (Encapsulated Postscript
A Solvable Model of Interacting Fermions in Two Dimensions
We introduce and study an exactly solvable model of several species of
fermions in which particles interact pairwise through a mutual magnetic field;
the interaction operates only between particles belonging to different species.
After an unitary transformation, the model reduces to one in which each
particle sees a magnetic field which depends on the total numbers of particles
of all the other species; this may be viewed as the mean-field model for a
class of anyonic theories. Our model is invariant under charge conjugation C
and the product PT (parity and time reversal). For the special case of two
species, we examine various properties of this system, such as the Hall
conductivity, the wave function overlap arising from the transfer of one
particle from one species to another, and the one-particle off-diagonal density
matrix. Our model is a generalization of a recently introduced solvable model
in one dimension.Comment: Revtex, 7 page
Tunneling between two Luttinger liquids with long range interaction
The non linear charge transfer through a tunnel junction between two
Luttinger systems is studied for repulsive, finite range interaction between
electrons on the same, V_{11}, and on different,V_{12}, sides of the junction.
Features of the Coulomb blockade effect are observed if V_{12}=0. We predict a
novel interaction induced enhancement of the current if V_{12}>0. When
V_{12}=V_{11}, the current is suppressed at small bias, but the ``charging
energy'', obtained from the asymptotic behavior at high bias voltage, vanishes.Comment: 4 pages, RevTeX, to be published in Physical Review B (Brief Report
Localized Wavefunctions and Magnetic Band Structure for Lateral Semiconductor Superlattices
In this paper we present calculations on the electronic band structure of a
two-dimensional lateral superlattice subject to a perpendicular magnetic field
by employing a projection operator technique based on the ray-group of
magnetotranslation operators. We construct a new basis of appropriately
symmetrized Bloch-like wavefunctions as linear combination of well-localized
magnetic-Wannier functions. The magnetic field was consistently included in the
Wannier functions defined in terms of free-electron eigenfunctions in the
presence of external magnetic field in the symmetric gauge. Using the above
basis, we calculate the magnetic energy spectrum of electrons in a lateral
superlattice with bi-directional weak electrostatic modulation. Both a square
lattice and a triangular one are considered as special cases. Our approach
based on group theory handles the cases of integer and rational magnetic fluxes
in a uniform way and the provided basis could be convenient for further both
analytic and numerical calculations.Comment: 19 pages, 5 figures. accepted to Int. J. Mod. Phys. B (April 2006
Experiments on the Fermi to Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid transition in quasi-1D systems
We present experimental results on the tunneling into the edge of a two
dimensional electron gas (2DEG) obtained with GaAs/AlGaAs cleaved edge
overgrown structures. The electronic properties of the edge of these systems
can be described by a one-dimensional chiral Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid when the
filling factor of the 2DEG is very small. Here we focus on the region where the
Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid breaks down to form a standard Fermi liquid close to
and show that we recover a universal curve, which describes all
existing data.Comment: 5 pages, localisation 2002, conference proceeding
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