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arXiv:0704.1386 · Physical Review B

Disorder effect on the Friedel oscillations in a one-dimensional Mott insulator

Y. Weiss, Moshe Goldstein, Richard Berkovits

Published Jul 17, 2007• 7 citations
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Abstract

The Friedel oscillations resulting from coupling a quantum dot to one edge of a disordered one-dimensional wire in the Mott insulator regime are calculated numerically using the density matrix renormalization group method. By investigating the influence of a constant weak disorder on the Friedel oscillations decay we find that the effect of disorder is reduced by increasing the interaction strength. This behavior is opposite to the recently reported influence of disorder in the Anderson insulator regime.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.76.024204

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Abstract The interplay between disorder and interaction, especially near metal insulator transitions, is a long‐standing question. We investigate in detail single impurities, in particular, the Friedel oscillations induced by them. We study the decay of the Friedel oscillations in the one‐dimensional Heisenberg and Hubbard model analytically using the bosonization technique and numerically using the density matrix renormalization group treatment (DMRG). For the Heisenberg chain, we confirm the predictions of conformal field theory and bosonization for small interaction, but near phase transitions deviations are found in form of vanishing or additional oscillations. For the Hubbard chain, we study the oscillations – in the density as well as in the magnetization – in the spin‐gap, charge‐gap, and Luttinger liquid phase. We find an exponential decay or a very slow algebraic decay of the oscillations in the gapped phases. In the Luttinger liquid phase, we concentrate on the question of logarithmic corrections (which occur also in the isotropic Heisenberg antiferromagnet). Differences in the behavior near a boundary compared to an impurity are pointed out. (© 2004 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
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Dielectric responces of the one-dimentional electron system is investigated numerically. We treat an interacting one-dimentional spinless fermion model with disorder by using the Density Matrix Renormalization Group(DMRG) method which is extended for nonuniform systems. We apply an electric field EEE to the system and calculate dielectric responces. Dielectric responce of the Mott insulator and the Anderson insulator are calculated respectively. Steplike behaviors in P−EP-EP−E curve are obtained which corresponds to breakdown of the insulating behavior. For the Mott insulator, the steps originate from generation of kink-pairs. For the Anderson insulator on the other hand, the origin of the steps is a crossing of the localized one particle energy levels. We also treat random systems with interaction. From one parameter scaling analysis of the susceptibility χχχ, the metal-insulator transition in attractively interacting region is confirmed and a phase diagram of the random spinless fermion model is obtained.
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