Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2007-06-20
Phys. Rev. A 78, 022104 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
13 pages, 5 figures. A generalization to the case of an arbitrary harmonic liquid is given and discussion is improved. Version
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.78.022104
We compute an analog Casimir effect in a one-dimensional spinless Luttinger liquid confined to a segment in the presence of a nearly-impenetrable partition dividing the segment into two compartments. The Casimir interaction is found to be a bounded piecewise-continuous oscillatory function whose maxima are points of force discontinuity and correspond to resonant tunneling across the partition. The well-known regularization-based results are reproduced by the lower envelope of this function, which corresponds to an approximation that ignores the rather large oscillations due to particle discreteness. These macroscopic conclusions are tested and confirmed via a rigorous analysis of the Casimir effect in an exactly-solvable model of a one-dimensional non-relativistic spinless gas of free fermions, thus resolving an objection that has been raised by Volovik (2003). Additionally we confirm the result of a recent calculation which employed an effective low-energy theory with a cutoff to find the Casimir interaction between two strong well-separated impurities placed in a Luttinger liquid.
Kolomeisky Eugene B.
Straley Joseph P.
Timmins Michael
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