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Modern Physics Letters B

RENORMALIZATION OF POTENTIAL SCATTERING IN A ONE-DIMENSIONAL NON-LUTTINGER LIQUID: CONDUCTION AND X-RAY FERMI-EDGE SINGULARITY

Dongxiao Yue

Published Feb 28, 1995• 0 citations
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Abstract

We review some of our recent results on the potential scattering in a weakly interacting one-dimensional(1D) electron gas. The technique we developed is a poor man's renormalization group procedure in the scattered wave basis. This technique can treat the renormalizations of the scattering on the barrier and the scattering between the electrons in a coherent way, and it allows us to find the scattering amplitudes on a localized potential of arbitrary strength for electrons at any energy. The obtained phase shifts are used to study the Fermi-edge singularity in an interacting 1D electron system, where anomalous exponent of the power-law singularity in the vicinity of the edge is found. The transmission coefficient is directly related to the conductance of a 1D channel by the Landauer formula. Simple formulas that describe the conductance at any temperature are derived. In spin-[Formula: see text] systems, the electron–electron backscattering induces renormalizations of the interaction constants, which causes the low-temperature conductance to deviate from the results of the Luttinger liquid theory. In particular, the temperature dependence of the conductance may become nonmonotonic. In the presence of a magnetic field, backscattering gives rise to a peak in the differential conductance at bias equal to the Zeeman splitting.

DOI
10.1142/s0217984995000255

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The influence of umklapp scattering on the resistivity of an interacting-one-dimensional-fermion system (Luttinger liquid) is studied. By using a renormalization-group calculation and a memory-function approximation for the conductivity, it is possible to obtain its frequency and temperature dependence at arbitrary filling. At high temperature the conductivity behaves as a power law of the temperature with an exponent depending on the interactions. Away from half filling there is a crossover between this behavior and an exponential increase of the conductivity. At half filling, the low-temperature conductivity behaves as ${\mathit{e}}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}/\mathit{T}}$, where \ensuremath{\Delta} is the gap in the charge spectrum. It is argued that to get such behavior other scattering processes or phase-breaking processes are needed since in the presence of only electron-electron scattering the conductivity should, strictly speaking, be infinite at every finite temperature, even at half filling. Finally some results on the exponents of correlation functions and on the weight of the Drude peak obtained previously for the Hubbard model are shown to be generic features of any Luttinger liquid.
The photon-absorption edge in a weakly interacting one-dimensional electron gas is studied, treating backscattering of conduction electrons from the core hole exactly. Close to threshold, there is a power-law singularity in the absorption, I(\ensuremath{\epsilon})\ensuremath{\propto}${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\epsilon}}}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}\mathrm{\ensuremath{\alpha}}}$, with \ensuremath{\alpha}=3/8+${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\delta}}}_{+}$/\ensuremath{\pi}-${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\delta}}}_{+}^{2}$/2${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\pi}}}^{2}$, where ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\delta}}}_{+}$ is the forward-scattering phase shift of the core hole. In contrast to previous theories, \ensuremath{\alpha} is finite (and universal) in the limit of weak core-hole potential. In the case of weak backscattering U(2kF{\mathit{k}}_{\mathit{F}}kF​), the exponent in the power-law dependence of absorption on energy crosses over to a value \ensuremath{\alpha}=${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\delta}}}_{+}$/\ensuremath{\pi}-${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\delta}}}_{+}^{2}$/2${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\pi}}}^{2}$ above an energy scale ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\epsilon}}}^{\mathrm{*}}$\ensuremath{\sim}[U(2kF{\mathit{k}}_{\mathit{F}}kF​)${]}^{1/\ensuremath{\gamma}}$, where \ensuremath{\gamma} is a dimensionless measure of the electron-electron interactions.
Using bosonization and phase shift representation, we rigorously treat backward scattering of electrons on an impurity in a one-dimensional interacting electronic system, and demonstrate that correlation exponents of the system depend on a phase shift induced by the backward scattering, and usual exponent duality of the correlation functions between ultraviolet and infrared fixed points comes from the phase shift dependence of the correlation exponents. Finally, we study the tunnelling conductance of the system at zero temperature and obtain a modified Landauer-Bütiker formula.