Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2001-11-20
Phys. Rev. B 66, 035313 (2002).
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.66.035313
We discuss the conductance of quantum wires (QW) in terms of the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL) theory. We use explicitly the charge fractionalization scheme which results from the chiral symmetry of the model. We suggest that results of the standard two-terminal (2T) conductance measurement depend on the coupling of TLL with the reservoirs and can be interpreted as different boundary conditions at the interfaces. We propose a three-terminal (3T) geometry in which the third contact is connected weakly to the bulk of TLL subjected to a large bias current. We develop a renormalization group (RG) analysis for this problem by taking explicitly into account the splitting of the injected electronic charge into two chiral irrational charges. We study in the presence of {\it bulk} contact the leading order corrections to the conductance for two different boundary conditions, which reproduce in the absence of {\it bulk} contact, respectively, the standard 2T source-drain (SD) conductance $G_{\rm SD}^{(2)}=e^2/h$ and $G_{\rm SD}^{(2)}=ge^2/h$, where $g$ is the TLL charge interaction parameter. We find that under these two boundary conditions for the {\it end} contacts the 3T SD conductance $G_{\rm SD}^{(3)}$ shows an UV-relevant deviation from the above two values, suggesting new fixed points in the ohmic limit. Non-trivial scaling exponents are predicted as a result of electron fractionalization.
Imura K. I.
Lederer Pascal
Pham K.-V.
Piéchon Frédéric
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