Effect of impurity pinning on conduction and specific heat in the Luttinger liquid
| Autor: | Artemenko, S. N., Remizov, S. V., Shapiro, D. S., Vakhitov, R. R. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.physb.2008.11.091 |
| Popis: | We study theoretically two effects related to impurity depinning that are common for 1D Luttinger liquid (LL) and linear-chain CDW conductors. First, we consider the electron transport through a single impurity in a 1D conducting channel and study a new regime of conduction related to LL sliding at voltage above a threshold one. The DC current in this regime is accompanied by oscillations with frequency $f =I/e$. This resembles the CDW depinning in linear-chain conductors, the Josephson effect, and the Coulomb blockade. Second, we found that strong pinning of the LL by impurities leads to a magnetic field dependence of the low-temperature specific heat similar to that observed experimentally in CDW compounds. We interpret this in favor of possibility of formation of the LL in linear-chain compounds. Comment: 6 pages, paper presented at the ECRYS-2008 conference (Aug. 2008), accepted for publication in Physica B: Physics of Condensed Matter |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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