Conductance through contact barriers of a finite length quantum wire

Details Conductance through contact barriers of a finite length quantum wire Conductance through contact barriers of a finite length quantum wire

2001-04-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0104402v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

LaTeX, 65 pages, 3 eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.65.195304

We use the technique of bosonization to understand a variety of recent experimental results on the conductivity of a quantum wire. The quantum wire is taken to be a finite-length Luttinger liquid connected on two sides to semi-infinite Fermi liquids through contacts. The contacts are modeled as (short) Luttinger liquids bounded by localized one-body potentials. We use effective actions and the renormalization group to study the effects of electronic interactions within the wire, the length of the wire, finite temperature and a magnetic field on the conductivity. We explain the deviations of the conductivity away from 2Ne^2/h in wires which are not too short as arising from renormalization effects caused by the repulsive interactions. We also explain the universal conductance corrections observed in different channels at higher temperatures. We study the effects of an external magnetic field on electronic transport through this system and explain why odd and even spin split bands show different renormalizations from the universal conductance values. We discuss the case of resonant transmission and of the possibility of producing a spin-valve which only allows electrons of one value of the spin to go through. We compare our results for the conductance corrections with experimental observations. We also propose an experimental test of our model of the contact regions.

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