Conductance of quantum wires: a numerical study of the effects of an impurity and interactions

Details Conductance of quantum wires: a numerical study of the effects of an impurity and interactions Conductance of quantum wires: a numerical study of the effects of an impurity and interactions

2005-07-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0507097v2

Phys. Rev. B 73 (2006) 045332

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

Revtex, 15 pages including 21 figures; all the numerical calculations have been re-done with a Fermi wavenumber of pi/10; this

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.73.045332

We use the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism along with a self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation to numerically study the effects of a single impurity and interactions between the electrons (with and without spin) on the conductance of a quantum wire. We study how the conductance varies with the wire length, the temperature, and the strength of the impurity and interactions. The dependence of the conductance on the wire length and temperature is found to be in rough agreement with the results obtained from a renormalization group analysis based on the Hartree-Fock approximation. For the spin-1/2 model with a repulsive on-site interaction or the spinless model with an attractive nearest neighbor interaction, we find that the conductance increases with increasing wire length or decreasing temperature. This can be qualitatively explained using the Born approximation in scattering theory. For a strong impurity, the conductance is significantly different for a repulsive and an attractive impurity; this is due to the existence of a bound state in the latter case. In general, the large density deviations at short distances have an appreciable effect on the conductance which is not captured by the renormalization group analysis.

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