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Luttinger liquid superlattices: realization of gapless insulating phases
We investigate Luttinger Liquid superlattices, a periodic structure composed
of two kinds of one-dimensional systems of interacting electrons. We calculate
several properties of the low-energy sector: the effective charge and spin
velocities, the compressibility, various correlation functions, the Landauer
conductance and the Drude weight. The low-energy properties are subsumed into
effective parameters, much like homogeneous one-dimensional systems. A generic
result is the weighted average nature of these parameters, in proportion to the
spatial extent of the underlying subunits, pointing to the possibility of
``engineered'' structures. As a specific realization, we consider a
one-dimensional Hubbard superlattice, which consists of a periodic arrangement
of two long Hubbard chains with different coupling constants and different
hopping amplitudes. This system exhibits a rich phase diagram with several
phases, both metallic and insulating. We have found that gapless insulating
phases are present over a wide range of parameters.Comment: 16 pages, 15 figures, RevTeX
Lorentz-violating nonminimal coupling contributions in mesonic hydrogen atoms and generation of photon higher-order derivative terms
We have studied the contributions of Lorentz-violating CPT-odd and CPT-even
nonminimal couplings to the energy spectrum of the mesonic hydrogen and the
higher-order radiative corrections to the effective action of the photon sector
of a Lorentz-violating version of the scalar electrodynamics. By considering
the complex scalar field describes charged mesons (pion or kaon), the
non-relativistic limit of the model allows to attain upper-bounds by analyzing
its contribution to the mesonic hydrogen energy. By using the experimental data
for the strong correction shift and the pure QED transitions , the best upper-bound for the CPT-odd coupling is
and for the CPT-even one is
. Besides, the CPT-odd radiative correction to the
photon action is a dimension-5 operator which looks like a higher-order
Carroll-Field-Jackiw term. The CPT-even radiative contribution to the photon
effective action is a dimension-6 operator which would be a higher-order
derivative version of the minimal CPT-even term of the standard model
extension
Extreme thermopower anisotropy and interchain transport in the quasi-one-dimensional metal Li(0.9)Mo(6)O(17)
Thermopower and electrical resistivity measurements transverse to the
conducting chains of the quasi-one-dimensional metal Li(0.9)Mo(6)O(17) are
reported in the temperature range 5 K = 400 K the
interchain transport is determined by thermal excitation of charge carriers
from a valence band ~ 0.14 eV below the Fermi level, giving rise to a large,
p-type thermopower that coincides with a small, n-type thermopower along the
chains. This dichotomy -- semiconductor-like in one direction and metallic in a
mutually perpendicular direction -- gives rise to substantial transverse
thermoelectric (TE) effects and a transverse TE figure of merit among the
largest known for a single compound.Comment: PRL in press, manuscript (5pp, 4 Fig.'s) and Supplementary Material
(3pp, 3 Fig.'s
Analytical study of tunneling times in flat histogram Monte Carlo
We present a model for the dynamics in energy space of multicanonical
simulation methods that lends itself to a rather complete analytic
characterization. The dynamics is completely determined by the density of
states. In the \pm J 2D spin glass the transitions between the ground state
level and the first excited one control the long time dynamics. We are able to
calculate the distribution of tunneling times and relate it to the
equilibration time of a starting probability distribution. In this model, and
possibly in any model in which entering and exiting regions with low density of
states are the slowest processes in the simulations, tunneling time can be much
larger (by a factor of O(N)) than the equilibration time of the probability
distribution. We find that these features also hold for the energy projection
of single spin flip dynamics.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, published in Europhysics Letters (2005
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