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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Frequency dependences in transport through a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid wire

Vadim V. Ponomarenko

Published Oct 15, 1996• 41 citations
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Abstract

Dynamics of one-dimensional electron transport between two reservoirs are studied based on the inhomogeneous Tomonaga-Luttinger-liquid model in the case when the effect of the electron backscattering on the impurities is negligible. The inhomogeneities of the interaction lead to a charge-wave reflection. This effect supposes a special behavior of the transport characteristics at the microwave frequencies. Different features are predicted in the current noise spectrum and in the ac frequency dependence. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.54.10328

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We study the current produced in a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid by an applied bias and by weak, pointlike impurity potentials which are oscillating in time. We use bosonization to perturbatively calculate the current up to second order in the impurity potentials. In the regime of small bias and low pumping frequency, both the dc and ac components of the current have power-law dependences on the bias and pumping frequencies with an exponent $2K\ensuremath{-}1$ for spinless electrons, where KKK is the interaction parameter. For K<1∕2K<1∕2K<1∕2, the current grows large for special values of the bias. For noninteracting electrons with K=1K=1K=1, our results agree with those obtained using Floquet scattering theory for Dirac fermions. We also discuss the cases of extended impurities and of spin-1∕21∕21∕2 electrons.
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