A single impurity in a Luttinger liquid: How it "cuts" the chain

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2001-09-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0109013v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

16 pages, 6 figures included, analytical discussion for a weak link added

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Using a fermionic renormalization group method we present a simple real space picture of the strong influence an impurity has on the electronic properties of a Luttinger liquid. We compute the flow of the renormalized impurity potential for a single impurity over the entire energy range - from the microscopic scale of a lattice-fermion model down to the low-energy limit. We confirm that low energy properties close to the impurity are as if the chain is cut in two pieces with open boundary conditions at the end points, but show that this universal behavior is only reached for extremely large systems. The accuracy of the renormalization group scheme is demonstrated by a direct comparison with data obtained from the density-matrix renormalization group method.

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